Hezbollah announced it carried out coordinated missile and drone strikes against nine Israeli military targets object, intensifying hostilities on Lebanon's southern border for the second day in a row, reports Reuters, as quoted by News.bg.
The strikes came in response to an Israeli strike on Tuesday that killed a senior Hezbollah commander. According to a Lebanese security source, this is the biggest attack carried out by Hezbollah since October, when the group began exchanging fire with Israel amid the war in Gaza.
In the early hours of Friday, a strike on a building east of the Lebanese port city of Tire killed a female civilian and wounded more than ten people, many of them children, according to two Lebanese security sources. The Israeli army said it was investigating the incident.
Hezbollah said it fired volleys of Katyusha rockets. and "Falag" to six Israeli military sites. Hezbollah's Al-Manar TV channel reported that over 100 rockets were fired simultaneously. In addition, Hezbollah has used attack drones against Israel's Northern Command headquarters, intelligence headquarters, and military barracks. According to a Reuters source, this involved launching at least 30 attack drones simultaneously, making it the group's largest drone attack so far in the eight-month conflict.
On Thursday, air raid sirens sounded in towns in northern Israel, and Israeli officials reported about 40 rockets fired in the afternoon. State-run Cannes TV broadcast footage of numerous aerial interceptions of rockets over Israeli towns, including Safed, about 12 km from the border. Two people were injured by shrapnel, Israel's national emergency service reported.
Israeli strikes have killed over 300 Hezbollah fighters in Lebanon - more than in the last major war between the countries in 2006. The civilian death toll is around 80. Attacks from Lebanon have killed 18 Israeli soldiers and 10 civilians. The exchange of fire has displaced tens of thousands of people on both sides of the border.
The G7 leaders gathered in Italy expressed deep concern about the situation on the border between Israel and Lebanon. Israeli government spokesman David Menzer said: "Diplomatically or militarily, peace will be restored to our north. Israel will defend itself. There should be no doubt about that."