As concerns about a major escalation in southern Lebanon grow, military operations between Hezbollah and Israel continue to intensify.
On Saturday evening, Israeli raids targeted several localities in the Hermel region north of the Bekaa, including Hosh al-Sayyed Ali and the Kawakh area. The Israeli army claimed to have bombed Hezbollah weapons depots, while local reports indicated that an abandoned farm was targeted in the raids.
The Public Health Emergency Operations Center of the Ministry of Public Health issued a statement announcing that the Israeli raid on the vicinity of the town of Kawakh led to the injury of four people, including three children, and all four needed to be hospitalized for treatment. Meanwhile, intensive reconnaissance flights were reported over the Bekaa.
In southern Lebanon, Israeli warplanes launched a two-wave air strike on the outskirts of Tayr Harfa. Raids were also carried out against Taybé and Aïtaroun. The Israeli army also launched flares over the Khiam plain and the Bab Thania area on the outskirts of Khiam.
In response to Israeli attacks on villages in the south, Hezbollah launched an air attack with a squadron of dive-bombing drones on the position of the 769th Brigade of the Galilee Division at Ein Margaliot, west of Kiryat Shmona. The drones reportedly “hit their targets with precision”, according to a statement from the pro-Iranian formation.
Hezbollah also targeted a gathering of Israeli soldiers in the vicinity of the Mitat barracks with rocket-propelled grenades, the Rweissat el-Alam position in the Kafrchouba hills and the Zebdin barracks in the Shebaa farms with artillery shells . It carried out a drone attack on the 810th Brigade headquarters in the Ma’aleh Golani barracks. It also targeted the base and headquarters of the 282nd artillery and precision missile brigade in retaliation for Israel’s attack on Ahmadiyeh and struck weapons depots and logistics warehouses in Yiftah Eliflet, north-west of Lake Tiberias, using dozens of Katyusha rockets. A Merkava tank spotted on the road between Rweissat el-Alam and Zebdine, near Kfarchouba, was the target of a guided missile launched by Hezbollah.
Alarm sirens went off in Safad and other parts of the Upper Galilee in northern Israel after some 50 rockets were fired from southern Lebanon on Saturday morning. So far, no casualties have been reported, although, according to the Israeli media, the attack targeted several residential areas. The scope of the strikes carried out by the pro-Iranian group extended to reach Lake Tiberias, the village of Rosh Pinna, and also the Hadab Yaron site with the use of Burkan missiles, in response to Israeli aggression. In the Kfarchouba hills, the pro-Iranian formation struck the Ramtha site.
On Saturday evening, Israeli drones targeted a motorcycle in the town of Sarafand. Ambulance crews immediately headed for the target area, and initial reports indicate that there were casualties.
In addition, air strikes targeted Chihine and Kafr Kila.
On Friday evening, an Israeli raid targeted a building in Nabatiye, killing three people, including two Hezbollah fighters and a child, and wounding thirteen others. The village of Ahmadiyeh, in the western Bekaa region, was also attacked, killing one person and wounding seven, including four children.
In a statement published on Saturday, Hezbollah claimed responsibility for an attack on the base and headquarters of the 282nd artillery and precision missile brigade, as well as weapons depots and logistics warehouses in Yiftah Eliflet, northwest of Lake Tiberias, using dozens of Katyusha rockets. A Merkava tank spotted on the road between Rweissat al-Alam and Zebdine, near Kfarchouba, was the target of a guided missile launched by Hezbollah.
In another statement, Hezbollah paid tribute to one of its fighters, Abbas Khodr Hamadeh, known as Jawad Mourad, from Qamatiyeh, Mount Lebanon, who lost his life in the fighting.
For their part, Israeli forces shelled the outskirts of Aita al-Chaab and launched a raid towards the village of Blida. They also fired flares over border villages adjacent to the Blue Line in the western and central sectors after Israeli reconnaissance aircraft and drones had flown over the southern sector on Friday night.
In a message posted on Platform X, Israeli army spokesman Avichai Adraee claimed responsibility for an “attack on the platforms from which missiles were launched on Friday night and Saturday morning towards the Galilee and Upper Galilee”.
