As tensions persisted along Lebanon’s southern border on Friday, Israeli planes conducted two strikes on a house in Aitaroun, destroying it completely, as well as a strike on a residence in Dhayra, where no injuries were reported.
The Israeli Army spokesman Avichai Adraee confirmed, in a post on X, that “the Defense Forces attacked a military building in which Hezbollah members acted.”
#عاجل 🟡 جيش الدفاع يغير على مبنى عسكري تصرف داخله مخربون من حزب الله
رصدت قوة من الفرقة 146 قبل قليل مخربًا من حزب الله يدخل إلى مبنى عسكري تابع للتنظيم في منطقة المطمورة حيث قصفت طائرات حربية المبنى الذي تصرف داخله مخربون من الحزب الإرهابي.
في الساعات الأخيرة أطلقت قذائف من… pic.twitter.com/cXs1JDeJzR
— افيخاي ادرعي (@AvichayAdraee) September 6, 2024
For its part, Hezbollah announced in a series of statements that Islamic resistance fighters targeted the Ma’ayan Baruch position with a swooping drone. They also targeted buildings used by Israeli soldiers in the Metula settlement. In addition to targeting the Zebdin barracks with rocket weapons.
The area between Tel Nahas and Al-Hammas towards the Marjayoun plain was also subjected to artillery shelling with phosphorus shells, which caused a fire.
Israeli artillery also targeted the outskirts of Aitaroun, Mays al-Jabal, and Kfar Kila with heavy caliber shells. It also bombarded Tal al-Nahas and Hamames with phosphorus bombs, causing fires.
Reconnaissance flights persisted overnight and into Friday morning, surveying villages in the west and center, extending to the periphery of Tyre.
The Israeli military deployed flares over border towns near the Blue Line, later initiating heavy machine gun fire towards Jabal al-Labbouneh and Jal al-Alam in the western sector at dawn.
Before midnight, Israeli warplanes attacked the outskirts of the towns of Aita al-Shaab in the central sector and Marwahin in the western sector, and UNIFIL forces sounded sirens at their posts in Chamaa multiple times.
The Israeli Broadcasting Corporation reported that three anti-tank missiles were fired from Lebanon opposite the border and hit a number of buildings without injuries.
The Israeli Army announced that it bombed Hezbollah military installations in Aita al-Shaab and Yarine on Thursday evening and attacked Hezbollah targets in the Blida area.
In turn, Hezbollah targeted Israeli positions in the Kfarchouba Heights and Shebaa Farms, as well as the Ma’ayan Baruch position.
As tensions persist on #Lebanon’s southern border, Israeli warplanes attacked a house in #Dhayra on Friday morning.https://t.co/0I1uWiI4GM pic.twitter.com/i4TpmuBvnK
— This is Beirut (@ThisIsBeirut_) September 6, 2024