Hezbollah targets barracks after commander’s death
Published: 05:06 PM,Jun 23,2024 | EDITED : 08:06 PM,Jun 23,2024
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BEIRUT: Lebanon’s Hezbollah group said on Sunday it had targeted two military positions in northern Israel with an armed drone in response to the killing of a commander.
Israel and the powerful Lebanese group, a Palestinian Hamas ally, have exchanged near-daily cross-border fire since the Gaza war erupted on October 7.
Hezbollah’s announcement came hours after it published a video excerpt purporting to show locations in Israel along with their coordinates, amid heightening fears of an all-out conflict between the two foes.
On Saturday, the group announced the death of one of its commanders, Ayman Ghotmeh, saying he was killed “in a treacherous Zionist raid” in Khiara in Lebanon’s eastern Bekaa area.
Israel later confirmed it had carried out the strike, saying Ghotmeh was responsible for supplying the Fajr Forces, the armed wing, and Hamas with weapons in the area.
Hezbollah on Sunday said its fighters launched a strike “with an attack drone” on a military leadership position in the Beit Hillel barracks “in response to the assassination carried out by the Israeli enemy in the town of Khiara”. Hezbollah later said it had struck with a “squadron of assault drones” the “headquarters of the newly created 91st Division in Ayelet Hashahar” near the northern Israeli city of Safed.
— AFP
Israel and the powerful Lebanese group, a Palestinian Hamas ally, have exchanged near-daily cross-border fire since the Gaza war erupted on October 7.
Hezbollah’s announcement came hours after it published a video excerpt purporting to show locations in Israel along with their coordinates, amid heightening fears of an all-out conflict between the two foes.
On Saturday, the group announced the death of one of its commanders, Ayman Ghotmeh, saying he was killed “in a treacherous Zionist raid” in Khiara in Lebanon’s eastern Bekaa area.
Israel later confirmed it had carried out the strike, saying Ghotmeh was responsible for supplying the Fajr Forces, the armed wing, and Hamas with weapons in the area.
Hezbollah on Sunday said its fighters launched a strike “with an attack drone” on a military leadership position in the Beit Hillel barracks “in response to the assassination carried out by the Israeli enemy in the town of Khiara”. Hezbollah later said it had struck with a “squadron of assault drones” the “headquarters of the newly created 91st Division in Ayelet Hashahar” near the northern Israeli city of Safed.
— AFP