About 30 rockets were fired into northern Israel from Lebanon late Thursday into early Friday, following an Israeli drone strike that seriously wounded a commander of Iran-backed militant group Hezbollah in southern Lebanon, the Israeli army said. An army spokesperson told AFP that the rockets were fired from Lebanon toward the areas of Ein Zeitim and Dalton in the north of Israel.
Earlier Thursday evening, an Israeli drone strike on a car in south Lebanon seriously wounded a commander of Iran-backed militant group Hezbollah on Thursday. The Lebanese army closed off the main road where the strike took place.
The Israeli military said its aircraft struck a “Hezbollah commander” in south Lebanon, claiming he was involved in cross-border rocket attacks and said it had carried out air strikes on Hezbollah targets.
Israeli air force chief Tomer Bar warned that if war breaks out on the Lebanese border, “there will be massive and significant blows, hundreds of targets will be attacked simultaneously deep in the country — as well as Tyre, Sidon, Beirut and the Bekaa Valley.”
Since the day after Hamas militants attacked Israel on October 7, sparking the Gaza war, Hezbollah has targeted Israeli army positions along the border in support of the Palestinian Islamist movement. Israel has repeatedly bombarded Lebanese border villages, killing 227 people, mostly Hezbollah fighters but also 27 civilians.
The exchanges have sparked fears of a repetition of the devastating 2006 war between Israel and Hezbollah. French Foreign Minister Stephane Sejourne visited Beirut this week, hot on the heels of his British counterpart David Cameron.
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