Tensions continued to rise on the southern front on Thursday as heavy Israeli artillery was reported on the towns of Khiam, Deir Mimas, and Naqoura. As a result, a house in Khiam caught fire, with no injuries reported until the moment.
According to Israeli media, sirens sounded in the Western Galilee “after a suspected drone breached Israeli airspace.”
In this context, the Israeli Channel 12 announced that “air defenses intercepted a suspicious object in Western Galilee.”
Sirens also sounded in the northern Israeli towns of Ghajar, Kfar Yuval, and Maayan Baruch.
On the other hand, the number of injuries in Wednesday night’s strike on Marjayoun increased to eight, including a three-year-old child, according to an update from the Ministry of Health’s Emergency Operations Center.
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Hezbollah later mourned two of its fighters, Mohammed Ali Badr el-Din and Hussein Yassine Chaaito.
The pro-Iranian group also claimed responsibility for an attack on the command of the Al-Sahel battalion in the Beit Hillel barracks on Wednesday evening and another on the Meeyan position on Thursday morning.
On Wednesday night, a fire broke out in Deir Mimas and on the outskirts of Qlayaa, following Israeli artillery bombardment.
The Israeli Army also dropped flares on Markaba.
