An Israeli raid on the border village of Majdal in southern Lebanon (French)
Hezbollah announced that it attacked 4 Israeli military sites off the southern border of Lebanon, while Israel launched raids on Lebanese towns, and said that it was strengthening its readiness to launch an attack on Lebanon, and a joint UNIFIL and Lebanese army patrol came under fire.
Hezbollah said that its fighters targeted the sites of Zibdin and Ruwaisat al-Qarn in the occupied Lebanese Shebaa Farms and achieved a direct hit.
They also targeted with missile weapons a gathering of Israeli occupation soldiers in the vicinity of Hunin Castle. The party also bombed the Israeli site of Al-Baghdadi with a Burkan missile, confirming direct casualties.
The party confirmed that it confronted "an Israeli march on the Palestinian border with appropriate weapons, forcing it to retreat."
Al Jazeera's correspondent said that sirens sounded in the settlements of Misgav Am, Kiryat Shmona and Margaliot in the Upper Galilee, after missiles were launched from southern Lebanon.
Israeli raids
On the other hand, Israeli fighters launched raids on the towns of Mays al-Jabal, al-Dhahira, Aita al-Shaab, Kafra, and Majdal Zoun in southern Lebanon. An Israeli missile march targeted a house in the town of Blida, while the vicinity of the town of al-Wazzani was subjected to Israeli artillery shelling.
The Israeli army said that its warplanes raided last night the infrastructure of the Lebanese Hezbollah in the Labouneh area and a building it described as a military building in the Aita al-Shaab area in southern Lebanon.
An Al Jazeera correspondent reported that 6 Israeli interceptor missiles exploded off the central sector of southern Lebanon.
The commander of the Northern Command of the Israeli army expressed their commitment to changing the security situation in the north in order to return the residents to their homes, indicating during a visit to the Western Galilee that they are constantly enhancing preparations to launch an attack on Lebanon.
Shooting at a UNIFIL patrol
In another development, the United Nations forces operating in southern Lebanon (UNIFIL) announced that a joint force from UNIFIL and the Lebanese army came under fire from the Israeli side on the border with southern Lebanon.
A UNIFIL spokesman explained that the force was exposed to small arms fire while on patrol in the vicinity of the town of Aita al-Shaab, which led to the injury of a Lebanese army vehicle, but no casualties were reported.
In turn, Lebanese media said that the incident occurred in the vicinity of the town of Aita al-Shaab, when the patrol was attacked with light weapons, confirming that there were no casualties as a result of the incident.
Incomplete official Lebanese statistics, which included all the villages on the border line, showed that about a thousand homes were completely destroyed in southern Lebanon and about 10,000 other homes were partially damaged as a result of artillery shelling and Israeli raids since the eighth of last October.
Source: Al Jazeera