An Israeli fighter jet flies over a border area with southern Lebanon early this month (French)

The Israeli army said on Tuesday that it targeted an airstrip and buildings within a military complex of the Lebanese Hezbollah in the Zaboud area, while the party announced that it had carried out 10 attacks on occupation sites and targeted a barracks in the occupied Syrian Golan with more than 50 Katyusha rockets.

The occupation army explained that it carried out raids on a Hezbollah airstrip and military installations in the Tal Wardin area in the Lebanese interior, and attacked the party’s weapons stores in Hanin and a military compound in Beit Yahoun in southern Lebanon, indicating that its targeting of sites in the Zaboud area (190 kilometers from the border) came in response. The party fired missiles at the air control unit in Meron.

The Israeli army added that its fighters raided the Wadi Afra area in the Bekaa, eastern Lebanon, and Hezbollah military buildings in Aita al-Shaab and Kafr Kila, and an observation point in Maroun al-Ras, southern Lebanon, and that it raided during the night hours sites in the towns of Tayr Harfa and al-Dhahira, southern Lebanon, indicating that it had monitored Two shells were fired from Lebanese territory towards the town of Shlomi, and it attacked the sources of fire.

From a site destroyed by an Israeli bombing on the village of Kafra in southern Lebanon last February (French)

Four security sources also told Reuters that Israel launched air strikes on areas near the towns of Ras Baalbek and Hermel in northeastern Lebanon on Tuesday, in the furthest bombing so far from the southern border.

For his part, Al Jazeera's correspondent reported that Israeli aircraft also raided the towns of Beit Yahoun, Al-Jebain, Yarin, Tayrharfa, and the vicinity of the town of Hanin, while the Lebanese Civil Defense announced the killing of a person in a raid on the town of Maroun Al-Ras.

Al-Quds Brigades, the military wing of the Islamic Jihad Movement, said that one of its fighters was martyred in southern Lebanon while performing his combat duty during the Al-Aqsa Flood Battle.

The official Lebanese news agency reported that the occupation aircraft launched several raids on the town of Hula and the town of Kafr Kila, where it completely destroyed a two-story house, in addition to Israeli artillery shelling on the outskirts of the town of Kafr Shuba - the district of Al-Ain, and the Israeli army fired “bursts of gunfire towards farmers this morning in the town of Al-Mari in the Hasbaya district.” ", but no injuries were reported.

50 missiles

For its part, Hezbollah announced that it carried out 10 attacks on Israeli sites, and targeted the Yardun Barracks in the occupied Syrian Golan with more than 50 Katyusha rockets, in response to an Israeli raid in the Bekaa.

The party added that its fighters bombed the Israeli Meron base with guided missiles and achieved direct hits. They also bombed 4 buildings used by Israeli soldiers in the settlements of Avivim, Shlomi and Shomira, noting that its fighters bombed two gatherings of soldiers in the Hanita settlement and in the vicinity of the Pranit barracks, and two infantry forces in the vicinity of Shtula and Hanita.

For its part, the Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth said that a factory in Kibbutz Avivim was subjected to the firing of two anti-tank missiles from Lebanon, which led to the outbreak of a major fire that resulted in “severe losses after the two missiles targeted the factory, causing the entire factory to catch fire.”

🔻Hebrew sources: Fire destroyed the building in the “Avivim” settlement, which Hezbollah targeted with missiles a short while ago pic.twitter.com/ZMwHsxAMJP

- Palestinian Information Center (@PalinfoAr) March 26, 2024

The Israeli army spokesman said that 3 missiles were launched from Lebanon towards Avivim, causing a building to catch fire, but did not result in casualties. He said that the army responded by bombing sources of fire in Lebanon.

Since the start of the escalation, the Israeli army announced that 10 of its soldiers and 7 civilians were killed by fire originating in Lebanon, while at least 322 people were killed in Lebanon, including 219 Hezbollah fighters and 56 civilians, according to a tally prepared by Agence France-Presse based on party statements and Lebanese sources.

This comes in light of the exchange of attacks and bombings between the two sides, and Hezbollah announcing several times that stopping its attacks is linked to the occupation stopping its aggression against the Gaza Strip, in exchange for Israeli assurances that any truce in the Gaza Strip “will not distract Israel from its goal of removing Hezbollah” from the south. Lebanon.

Source: Al Jazeera + agencies