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Hezbollah launched a series of drone attacks on September 5, targeting key sites of the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) near Lebanon’s border.
In separate statements, the group said it launched “squadrons” of suicide drones at the Ramot Naftali barracks, the headquarters of the Valley Battalion in the Beit Hillel barracks and the newly established headquarters of the 300th Western Brigade near the Ya’ara barracks. It added that Ramot Naftali was also targeted with a salvo of rockets.
The group’s fighters also shelled a gathering of Israeli troops on the al-Tihat hill and the border site of al-Malikiyah with rockets and artillery fire.
The attacks were carried out in support of the Palestinian people and resistance in the Gaza Strip as well as in response to recent Israeli strikes on southern Lebanon, Hezbollah noted in its statements.
From its side, the IDF said in separate statements that its air defenses intercepted three of several drones launched by Hezbollah, one over northern Israel and two other southern Lebanon. At least one drone impact was also confirmed by the military in Ya’ara, but no casualties were reported. In addition, the military admitted that a salvo of rockets hit Ramot Naftali.
The announced that it struck a site of Hezbollah in the southern Lebanese town of Qana, in what appears to be an initial response to the group’s attacks.
Hezbollah mourned one of its fighters during the day. However, it is still unclear if he was killed in Qana or in a separate Israeli strike that targeted the town of Kafra, which is also located in southern Lebanon.
Hezbollah and its allies have been launching near-daily attacks against Israel in support of the Hamas Movement and other armed factions in Gaza since the outbreak of the war on the Strip last October.
So far, the confrontation has resulted in 26 civilian deaths in Israel and the occupied Golan as well as the deaths of at least 20 soldiers and security officers. On the Lebanese side, more than 800 people have been killed, including 433 fighters of Hezbollah and over 100 civilians.
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