Amid escalating tensions, Israel is bracing for Hezbollah’s anticipated response to the assassination of leader Fouad Shukr last week.
The Lebanese group Hezbollah launched a drone attack early Monday on a military headquarters in the Upper Galilee, confirming the killing and wounding of Israeli soldiers.
In a statement, Hezbollah claimed responsibility for targeting the headquarters of the Israeli 91st Division in the Elit barracks, resulting in multiple casualties. The Israeli army confirmed that an officer and a soldier were injured by shelling from Lebanese territory.
Additionally, Israeli Army Radio reported that a drone exploded near a shelter in the Ayelet Hashahar area in the Upper Galilee, prompting the army to search the area.
According to Israeli Channel 14, the shelling from southern Lebanon caused two injuries, one of them serious. Fires were also reported in various locations across the Upper Galilee due to missile interceptions, according to Yedioth Ahronoth.
The moment a drone made impact on an Israeli military site in Ayelet HaShahar, northeast of Safad in northern Israel, resulting in several wounded soldiers, according to Israeli sources.
The Lebanese movement Hezbollah confirmed the killing and wounding of Israeli soldiers.… pic.twitter.com/nBehohXHmM
— The Palestine Chronicle (@PalestineChron) August 5, 2024
In another significant development, Hezbollah announced a successful suicide drone attack on an Israeli military site in Al-Malikiyah later on Monday morning, claiming a direct hit.
Al Jazeera’s correspondent reported that sirens were activated in several towns across Western Galilee and near Nahariya after rockets were launched from Lebanon.
More than ten locations in the Upper Galilee sounded alarms in response to dual operations involving drones and missiles targeting settlements close to the Lebanese border.
Airstrikes in Lebanon
In related events, two people were killed Monday morning in an Israeli drone strike on the town of Mays al-Jabal in southern Lebanon, according to the Lebanese Ministry of Health. The Lebanese National News Agency identified one of the victims as a paramedic.
The Israeli army, meanwhile, stated that it had targeted a weapons depot and Hezbollah infrastructure in the towns of Kfar Kila, Shebaa, and Rashaya al-Fakhar in southern Lebanon.
Zionists' airstrikes martyr 2 citizens in southern Lebanonhttps://t.co/bmbxXS1rh4 pic.twitter.com/ZZxNSrDJRT
— IRNA News Agency (@IrnaEnglish) August 5, 2024
Amid escalating tensions, Israel is bracing for Hezbollah’s anticipated response to the assassination of leader Fouad Shukr last week.
Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah has vowed that retaliation will be inevitable, serious, and carefully planned.
Heightened Tensions
Since the start of the Israeli war on Gaza, on October 7, the Lebanese movement Hezbollah has engaged directly, but relatively in a limited way in the war against the Israeli occupation.
According to Hezbollah sources, the movement has carried out 1,194 military operations in the first 250 days of war, killing and wounding over 2,000 Israeli soldiers.
‘No Red Lines’ – This is What We Know about Iran’s Forthcoming Retaliation against Israel
Israel has occupied parts of Lebanon for decades and has only left the country in 2000, following stiff Lebanese resistance under Hezbollah’s leadership.
It attempted to re-occupy Lebanon in 2006 but failed in what Lebanon considers a major victory against Israel.
Israel, however, continues to occupy parts of Lebanon, namely the Sheeba Farms region.
Hezbollah has vowed to recover every inch of Lebanon that has been occupied by Israel contrary to international law.
(PC, AJA)
All Zionist Settlers Must Be Driven Out Of Palestine And Lebanon.
Israel Must Suffer For All Crimes Committed Against Palestine And Its People.
Have you tried releasing the Israeli hostages yet???
It doesn’t carry much weight when you pretend to be the victim after murdering 1200 civilians and abducting 250 others to hide behind…
The death toll is on the hands of the Hamas leaders..
Trying to hide behind the gazan population and by launching attacks from kindergartens, mosques and hospitals have removed the protections of the Geneva conventions and again Hamas has made these critical “protected sites’ legitimate and legal military targets… Gaza wtf up… Try releasing the hostages???
Hamas is Israeli, Iranians are People. BUT, the Israelis and their supporters think that real People, all around the world, and for a long time now, don’t realize this. They, the People, of course very much do know this, have knowledge of this, especially with this being the information age and all. So, how do you convince a state ideologue Zionist-racist of the facts? Simple: YOU CAN’T! Their cognition, if any, is strictly limited to the logic, or illogic, of the idea; e.g. Sharon was a killing, Barak was a “liberal,” etc. So, we have caught the evil system in their lie; yet, a Zionist-racist jim crow US NE jew/wasp gov keeps the truth from the “mainstream” outlets to protect the DC Temple.