Israeli fighter jets strike Hezbollah military infrastructure, IDF says

The Israeli military said its fighter jets struck Hezbollah infrastructure in southern Lebanon Sunday in response to shelling toward northern Israel from a “terrorist cell.”

The strike took place in the Har Dov area, and Israeli aircraft destroyed weapons that could have been used for further shelling, the Israel Defense Forces said via Telegram.

Of the three launches from that area in southern Lebanon, the Israeli military said it intercepted two, and the third landed in an open area.

In addition, several launches were fired toward the Malkia area in northern Israel, but two of them were intercepted and there were no injuries, according to the IDF.

Remember: This fighting is centered on northern Israel and southern Lebanon — separate from Israel’s fighting with Hamas farther south, which is centered around Gaza. But an uptick in clashes with Hezbollah has raised fears that the powerful Lebanese paramilitary group could actively participate in the conflict.

Hezbollah has unambiguously supported the Palestinian militants and roundly condemned Israel’s offensive in Gaza, but it has not intervened on behalf of Hamas so far.

The group has explicitly linked its attacks on Israel to the IDF’s strikes in Lebanese territory, and the fighting remains limited to this border region for now.

Source » cnn.com