Hezbollah launched a series of attacks against Israel on May 31 in response to strikes that killed two of its fighters in southern Lebanon a day earlier.
Overnight, the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) announced strikes against targets of Hezbollah in the towns of Houla, Maroun al-Ras, Aitaroun and Markaba in southern Lebanon. There were also reports of Israeli strikes on the town of Aalma al-Shaeb in the same region.
Citing Lebanese military sources, China’s Xinhua reported that two Hezbollah fighters of Hezbollah were killed and three civilians were wounded in Houla. A third fighter of the Iranian-backed Lebanese group was killed in the Aalma al-Shaeb, according to the news agency.
Hezbollah mourned only two of its fighters late on May 30, saying in separate statements that they were killed “on the road to Jerusalem,” its term for those killed by the IDF during the ongoing confrontation.
By the afternoon of May 31, the group had announced five attacks against the IDF in support of the Palestinian people and resistance in Gaza and in response to recent strikes on southern Lebanon.
In separate statements, the group said its fighters fired Burkan improvised heavy rockets at the headquarters of the IDF’s 91st Division in the Pranet barracks and the al-Baghdadi site, launched a barrage of rockets at the settlement of Ramot Naftali, attacked an Iron Dome air defense site in the al-Zaoura base with suicide drones and struck a building occupied by Israeli troops in the Shumira settlement.
Videos posted to social networks showed heavy damage at the Pranet barracks, and the IDF admitted damage in the occupied Golan Heights after it failed to intercept two suicide drones launched by Hezbollah. No casualties were reported by Hebrew media however.
Since the outbreak of the Israeli war on Gaza last October, Hezbollah and its allies in Lebanon began launching near-daily attacks against the IDF in support of the Hamas Movement and other armed factions in the Strip.
So far, the border clashes have resulted in ten civilian deaths on the Israeli side, as well as the deaths of at least 14 IDF soldiers and reservists. On the Lebanese side, more than 400 people have been killed, including 306 fighters of Hezbollah and at least 80 civilians.
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