Israeli attacks on several areas in Lebanon continue. Intense Israeli raids targeted the city of Tyre on Friday evening. The National News Agency (ANI) reported that the Israeli raids on Tyre left 3 people dead and more than 30 injured. The strikes also caused extensive damage in the targeted areas.
Lebanese state media also reported that on Friday, the Israeli army detonated explosives planted inside houses in three border villages that have faced repeated attacks since the conflict began.
“Since this morning, the Israeli enemy's army has been carrying out bombing operations inside the villages of Yaroun, Aitaroun, and Maroun al-Ras in the Bint Jbeil area, with the aim of destroying residential homes,” the official National News Agency (NNA) stated.
Israeli forces also conducted a raid in the nearby town of Bint Jbeil, according to NNA, following Hezbollah's announcement that it had targeted Israeli troops in the tense border region.
On Thursday, Hezbollah reported it had “ambushed” Israeli ground forces attempting to infiltrate Yaroun. The group also claimed it had launched eight operations since Wednesday, targeting Israeli troops near Maroun al-Ras.
Friday's explosions are the latest in a series of similar incidents impacting the border area. NNA reported that last month, Israeli troops detonated buildings in at least seven border villages. Footage, verified by AFP on Monday, showed large blasts that reduced homes in Mays al-Jabal to rubble.
Israel's Channel 12 aired footage last month that appeared to show one of its reporters embedded with soldiers detonating a building in the village of Aita al-Shaab.
Additionally, several villages were attacked from late Thursday night into early Friday, including Tyre, Khirbet Selm, Al Tayri, Soultaniyeh, Tibnine, Shaqra, Kounine (Bint Jbeil) and Kfar Remman (Nabatiyeh).
In Ain Baal, military aircraft targeted a building as funerals were planned for victims killed in Israeli attacks in Barja (Chouf district) the previous day. Shortly after midnight, the villages of Mansouri (Tyre), Ghandouriyeh (Nabatiyeh) and Froun (Bint Jbeil) were shelled.
On Thursday night, Israeli reconnaissance planes and drones flew over villages in the Tyre and Bint Jbeil districts, with the Israeli air force dropping flares over border villages near the Blue Line.
At dawn on Friday, Ramya, Aita al-Shaab and Qaouzah in southern Lebanon came under machine gun fire, particularly in forested areas near the Israeli border. Additionally, Alma al-Shaab, Wadi Saluki, Majdal Selm and Bint Jbeil were bombarded by Israeli artillery, causing significant material damage.
The United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) announced that six members of its Malaysian battalion were injured after a raid by Israeli drones near a Lebanese army checkpoint at the Awali River in Saida.
In Israel, sirens sounded in Haifa, Nazareth, Kiryat Shmona and surrounding areas, as well as across large parts of the Galilee, early on Friday morning. The Israeli army reported it had “detected about twenty missiles launched from Lebanon towards northern Israel and in the direction of Haifa and Nazareth,” adding that “some were intercepted.”
Israeli Channel 12 also reported that “five missiles were observed over the finger of Galilee” and that “some fell in open areas.” According to the channel, “ten missiles were launched on Naharia and the Western Galilee.”
Moreover, Israeli media reported that an army helicopter was searching for drones that had entered the airspace north of Caesarea.
Hezbollah claimed responsibility for an attack on the Stella Maris naval base northwest of Haifa on Friday morning, stating that it resulted in the base’s destruction and caused casualties and injuries among its crew and accompanying forces.
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