Israel The Israeli army and a source from the Iran-backed group said Sunday that they bombed a Hezbollah position in eastern Lebanon near the Syrian border, as tensions rose following Iran’s direct strike on Israel.
According to a Hezbollah source, the Israeli strike targeted an area near Baalbek and a two-story building belonging to the organization. No casualties were reported.
According to Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency, “an enemy air strike targeted a building” near Nabi Sheet and “destroyed it”.
An AFP photographer on the scene spotted the concrete and steel wreckage of the structure, which was destroyed in the attack.
According to an Israeli army statement, in reaction to nocturnal launches, “fighter jets struck a significant Hezbollah weapons manufacturing site” in the Nabi Sheet area “deep inside Lebanon”.
Earlier on Sunday, Hezbollah announced that it had launched two barrages of Katyusha rockets towards the Israeli-annexed Golan Heights in response to Israeli attacks on “villages and towns” in Lebanon.
It has fired similar barrages before, but Sunday’s launches coincided with a significant Iranian drone and missile attack on Israel.
The Iranian attack was in response to an April 1 air strike blamed on Israel, which damaged an Iranian embassy building in Damascus, killing seven Revolutionary Guards, including two generals.
Hezbollah, a Hamas partner, has exchanged almost daily cross-border fire with Israel since the Palestinian terrorist group assaulted southern Israel on October 7, sparking a conflict in the Gaza Strip.
According to an AFP assessment, the fighting, which has largely been limited to the Israeli-Lebanese border area, has killed at least 364 people in Lebanon, the majority of them are Hezbollah combatants but at least 70 are civilians.
Hezbollah announced on Sunday that one of its militants from south Lebanon’s Khiam had been killed, but did not identify where or when.
The Israeli army also claimed that fighter jets hit Hezbollah “military structures” in south Lebanon overnight, notably in Khiam.
According to the NNA, Israel launched attacks on many places in south Lebanon overnight, with at least one hit occurring on Sunday afternoon.
Israel’s military says 10 soldiers and eight civilians have been killed since hostilities began.
Tens of thousands of civilians have fled their homes on either side of the border.