BEIRUT, Lebanon: Lebanon’s Iran-backed Hezbollah group said on Wednesday it had fired several drones at a base near the Israeli city of Tiberias – one of its deepest attacks on Israeli territory in months of cross-border fighting.
Exchange of fire between Israel and Hamas ally Hezbollah has been a routine after the Palestinian group’s October 7 attack on southern Israel sparked the Gaza war.
Earlier on Wednesday, Hezbollah said it fired dozens of rockets at military positions in northern Israel.
The group attacked the Meron base with dozens of Katyusha rockets, heavy rockets and artillery shells and also targeted the barracks with “heavy rockets,” it said.
The attacks were part of a response to an assassination by Israeli enemy in the south the previous day, the agency added.
The Israeli military said sirens sounded in Meron on Wednesday, without providing further details.
Hezbollah later said its fighters “launched an aerial attack using a series of drones” on the base west of Tiberias, which lies about 30 kilometers (19 miles) from the border with Lebanon.
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It said the attack targeted “surveillance and detection systems” at the base, adding that it “hit its intended targets exactly and achieved what it wanted out of this limited operation.”
Hizballah’s attacks have previously been limited to Israeli cities and bases on the border with Lebanon.
On Tuesday evening, Hezbollah said Israeli fire killed its member Hussein Makki, whom a source close to the group identified as a field commander.
The Israeli military later confirmed that it launched the strike that killed Makki.
It describes him as a “senior field commander” in Hezbollah responsible for planning and executing numerous terrorist attacks against Israeli civilians and Israeli territory.
“He previously served as commander of Hezbollah forces in the coastal region,” the military added.
Lebanon’s official National News Agency reported two people killed in an “enemy drone attack targeting a car” on the main road connecting Tire and Al-Hush.
But another source close to Hezbollah later said that while Makki was killed, a second person was wounded.
