The Lebanese group Hezbollah claims to have launched a drone attack in the early hours of Monday in northern Israel that, according to it, injured two Israeli soldiers and caused a fire.
Hezbollah, which has the backing of Iran, claims in a statement that it attacked a military base in northern Israel in response to the “attacks and murders” carried out by Israel in several villages in southern Lebanon.
The attack did not appear to be part of the more intense retaliation expected in response to the assassination of Hezbollah commander Fuad Shukurin Beirut last week.
The Israeli military said firefighters were working to put out a fire that started as a result of the attack on the Kibbutz in Ayelet HaShahar in the Upper Galilee.
More and more attacks and more violent
Israel and Hezbollah have exchanged attacks almost daily during the last 10 months in the context of the war in Gaza, but until now they have kept the conflict at a low level that had not escalated into an open war.
Last week’s assassinations of Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh in Iran’s capital, Tehran, and Hezbollah commander Shukur in Beirut increased tensions in the region. Israel has been preparing for a retaliation from Iran and its allied militias.
Israel launches drone attack that kills two people
An Israeli drone strike near a cemetery in a southern town killed two people, including a paramedic.
The Lebanese state agency did not give any further details about the Monday morning attack in the town of Meissa al-Jabal. He said one of the dead was a member of the paramedic group of the Risala Islamic Scouts Association. The group identified the slain member as Mohammed Fawzi Hamadi
