Late Sunday morning, the precarious calm that had prevailed in the south was shattered by an Israeli strike against a house in the locality of Hula. This air raid resulted in the death of two Hezbollah fighters, according to information obtained by This is Beirut.
The attack was preceded by artillery fire targeting the locality and its outskirts, which also caused a fire in the targeted area. Ambulances were dispatched to the scene.
A shell from a Merkava tank targeted a Lebanese Army position on the outskirts of the town of Alma al-Shaab, resulting in light injuries to two soldiers.
On Sunday afternoon, an Israeli drone carried out a strike using a guided missile, targeting open ground in the al-Mahafer area in the locality of Aitaroun. Fire crews worked to bring the blaze under control. Artillery fire also targeted the village of Maroun al-Ras.
Earlier, on the Israeli side, alarm sirens were heard in Avivim and Baram and in towns in the Upper Galilee after rocket fire from Lebanon was detected.
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Hezbollah ammunition and weapons warehouse targeted in Adloun
Saturday night, violence had escalated on the southern front, where an Israeli raid 30 kilometers from the border with Israel targeted, according to various sources, an ammunition depot belonging to Hezbollah in the Abu al-Assouad area of Adloun.
This provoked fires and explosions that lasted for several hours during the night of Saturday to Sunday, while missiles and shrapnel flew, causing material damage in neighboring villages, notably in al-Loubia, Tabliya and al-Kharayeb.
Two houses were directly damaged and rocket fragments fell at the eastern entrance to Ansariya.
Preliminary reports suggested that two strikes were carried out on what is believed to be a house in one of the area’s coastal orchards.
According to the latest reports, the Adloun raid left 6 people injured. Fire trucks and ambulances were immediately dispatched to the target area, and the six wounded were transferred to the hospital.
Simultaneously, the Lebanese Army closed the Sidon-Tyre freeway to traffic in both directions, diverting traffic to secondary roads. The highway was not reopened until Sunday morning.
On Sunday morning, Israeli army spokesman Avichay Adraee confirmed the attack on his X account, saying, “Last night, warplanes attacked two weapons depots in the South Lebanon region, containing rocket projectiles and other weapons.”
Another raid was also carried out on the outskirts of al-Chahabiya. And yet another Israeli air strike targeted the al-Kasarah region, between al-Majadel and al-Chahabiya, but caused no casualties.
Hezbollah retaliation
For its part, Hezbollah issued a series of statements in which it announced on Sunday that “in retaliation” for the night strike against the locality of Adloun “which targeted civilians and wounded a number of them,” the party had targeted the Dafna settlement and the Sammaka and Ramtha positions in the Kfarchouba hills.
In turn, Hezbollah issued a statement following the Israeli raid on the Houthi-controlled Yemeni port of Hodeida, which left 6 dead and 87 wounded. The strike came on the heels of a deadly drone attack orchestrated by the group on Tel Aviv.
Hezbollah stressed that this “marks the beginning of a new phase of confrontation whose dangerousness is of the utmost importance for the entire region.”
The party also announced the death of three of its fighters, Mustafa Hassan Fawaz, Yassin Hussein and Ahmad Ali Moussa.
