The Lebanese Hezbollah announced on Monday that it had carried out a series of attacks with drones, rockets and artillery shells against the Israeli army in northern Israel on the border with Lebanon, against the backdrop of the war between Israel and the Palestinian Hamas in the Gaza Strip.
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Clashes between Israel and the powerful pro-Iranian Hezbollah have occurred daily since this war began on October 7, but these have generally been confined to the border area.
Hezbollah said in a statement that at 1:10 p.m. (11:10 GMT) on Monday, its fighters “attacked the assembly centers of Israeli occupation soldiers west of Kiryat Shmona with three attack drones.”
Hezbollah added that it had fired artillery at locations where Israeli soldiers were stationed in the same area.
He also announced that he had attacked several Israeli military positions in areas near the border with Burkan (Vulkan) missiles.
He claimed that these attacks caused casualties among the Israeli forces.
The Israeli army, for its part, said 25 rockets were fired from Lebanon on Monday, targeting several border towns.
It also confirmed that three drones had attacked a sector “adjacent to a military post” without reporting any casualties.
In response to attacks from Lebanon, the Israeli military bombed Hezbollah’s “terror infrastructure” with artillery, fighter jets and helicopters and targeted a “party cell that attempted to fire anti-tank missiles from the Marwahin region near the border,” it said Newspaper same source.
Hezbollah has a large arsenal, and its leader Hassan Nasrallah said on November 11 that his fighters had recently deployed new weapons, including “Burkan rockets capable of carrying explosive charges of 300 to 500 kilos.”
Daily exchanges of fire at the border have left at least 90 dead in Lebanon since October 7, according to an AFP count, most of them Hezbollah fighters but also at least ten civilians.
According to Israeli authorities, nine people were killed on the Israeli side, including six soldiers.
