Israeli shelling of South Lebanon continued on Thursday afternoon, with Israel targeting Ras al-Dahr, the western quarters of the locality of Mays al-Jabal, as well as the outskirts of Aita al-Shaab in the central sector.
A Hezbollah combatant, identified as Abbas Anis Ayoub, was killed and another wounded in an Israeli airstrike earlier Thursday on an area between Kafra and Seddiqin.
For its part, Hezbollah stepped up its operations against Israeli positions, carrying out three attacks with a squadron of drones. The targets included “the new headquarters of the Western Brigade 300 south of the Yarra barracks, as well as the places where its officers and soldiers are positioned, hitting the target with precision,” according to a statement by the pro-Iranian group.
Additionally, Hezbollah attacked the Ramot Naftali barracks and the headquarters of the Sahel Battalion in the Beit Hillel barracks.
Earlier, alarm sirens sounded in the vicinity of Doviv in the Upper Galilee.
The Israeli army had announced the “interception of four shells fired from Lebanon towards Ramot Naftali in the Upper Galilee, while a fifth shell crashed in the area.”
Israel also reported the “fall of a drone near Yarra in the Western Galilee and the interception of a drone fired from Lebanon in the Doviv region.”
The Israeli army claimed responsibility for “attacking a Hezbollah military infrastructure in the Qana region” and intercepting “two aerial targets launched from Lebanese territory, without causing any casualties.”
The Israeli Channel 12 reported “material damage following the fall of three shells in Ramot Naftali in the Upper Galilee.”
During the Israeli strikes, warplanes broke the sound barrier over the regions of Jezzine, Saida, Zahrani and Marjayoun.
On the other hand, the Israeli Army radio revealed that “a total of 6,611 rockets were fired at Israel between last February and the end of August. The lowest number recorded during this period was in January, with 334 rockets, compared with over 1,300 in August.”
“Last August, 1,307 rockets were fired from Lebanon into Israel, an average of 40 rockets per day,” which represents the highest rate of rocket fire since the start of the war between Israel and Hezbollah on October 8, 2023.
Since the beginning of the year, rocket fire statistics from Lebanon show a marked escalation: 534 in February, 746 in March, 744 in April, 1,000 in May, 855 in June, 1,091 in July and a peak of 1,307 in August, the army radio added.
