The Lebanese group Hezbollah says it has launched drone attacks on Israeli bases north of the city of Acre in retaliation for the killing of one of its fighters. This is the deepest attack into Israeli territory since the Gaza war began.
The Iran-backed group launched “a combined air attack using decoy and explosive drones that targeted” two Israeli bases halfway between Acre and Nahariyya, it said in a statement on Tuesday.
The group published what appeared to be a satellite photo, with the location of the attack symbolised by a flash with a red circle around it.
The Israeli military said it had no knowledge of any of its facilities being hit by Hezbollah, but had said earlier that it intercepted two “aerial targets” off Israel’s northern coast.
Rocket attack
Later on Tuesday, at least two people were reportedly killed and six others injured after an Israeli air raid hit a residential area in the southern Lebanese town of Hanin. Hezbollah said it launched dozens of rockets at northern Israel in response to the killing of the two civilians.
Earlier on Tuesday, the Israeli military said its air raids killed two Hezbollah fighters in southern Lebanon. Hezbollah later confirmed the death of one of its fighters, Hussein Azkoul.
Since Hamas’s October 7 attack triggered Israel’s war on Gaza, there have been cross-border exchanges of fire between Hezbollah and the Israeli army almost daily. Israeli attacks have killed about 270 Hezbollah fighters, as well as about 50 civilians.
Hezbollah’s rocket and drone fire has killed about a dozen Israeli soldiers and half as many civilians. The shelling has displaced tens of thousands on each side.
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