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On November 5, Hezbollah announced that its fighters targeted a day earlier a house in the settlement of Metula where a group of Israeli soldiers were gathered.
Hezbollah said in a statement that the attack was carried out in response to recent Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) strikes on southern Lebanon, which claimed the lives of a number of civilians. No further details on the attack were provided by the group.
From its side, the IDF confirmed that Metula was targeted with anti-tank guided missiles, but did not report any casualties or material losses.
Separately, the IDF announced in the early morning hours that its fighter jets had struck a number of Hezbollah targets in southern Lebanon after rocket fire was identified. The IDF said that none of the projectiles landed in Israeli territory, thus there were no losses.
Later in the morning, the IDF reported that an Iron Dome air defense system fired an interceptor over the settlement of Mattat.
The Iron Dome interceptor was fired at a “suspicious target” that entered Israeli airspace from southern Lebanon, according to the IDF, which didn’t clarify what the target was or whether it was actually intercepted.
Since the Hamas-led surprise attack from the Gaza Strip on October 7, Hezbollah and its allies have had near-daily exchanges of fire with the IDF along the Israeli-Lebanese border.
In recent days, clashes on the Lebanese front intensified. So far, the clashes have claimed the lives of eight Israelis -six soldiers and two civilians- 57 fighters of Hezbollah, two fighters from the Lebanese Resistance Brigades, seven Palestinian fighters -three from the Hamas Movement and four from the Islamic Jihad- and seven Lebanese civilians -two shepherds, a teenager, two elderly men and two journalists-.
