Hezbollah attacks Israeli posts after intense overnight airstrikes

Hezbollah on Wednesday announced four attacks with missiles and “appropriate weapons” on four Israeli military posts in northern Israel and the occupied Shebaa Farms.

Israeli warplanes had at dawn carried out more than 15 strikes on forests and groves on the outskirts of the Tyre district towns of Zibqin, al-Shaaitiyeh, al-Qlayleh, al-Hinniyeh, Majdal Zoun and Tayr Harfa, causing extensive damage to crops, properties and buildings in the groves of al-Qlayleh.

Hezbollah meanwhile announced the death of its fighter Hani Ezzeddine, saying he hailed from the Tyre district town of Deir Qanoun al-Nahr.

An airstrike later targeted a motorbike in the southern border town of Mays al-Jabal, killing one person and wounding another.

And as an airstrike hit the outskirts of the town of Yater, artillery shelling hit Naqoura’s peripheries and two Israeli explosive drones targeted the public park of the border town of Maroun al-Ras, causing material damage.

Hezbollah had on Tuesday launched an array of suicide drones at an Israeli military base in Ami'ad, near Lake Tiberias, deep in northern Israel, in response to attacks on southern towns and the assassination of a Hezbollah Radwan force commander in West Bekaa.

The cross-border violence since October 8 has killed some 617 people in Lebanon, mostly fighters but also including 138 civilians. On the Israeli side, including in the annexed Golan Heights, authorities have announced the deaths of at least 24 soldiers and 26 civilians.

The fighting has also displaced tens of thousands of Lebanese and Israeli residents on both sides of the border and Israel has repeatedly vowed to act to return its citizens through war or diplomatic action.