The Lebanese militant group Hezbollah on Tuesday claimed that it had made its deepest assault into Israel since October, placing with aerial drones north of town of Acre and setting off sirens throughout the nation’s northern shoreline.
The militant group, Iran’s strongest regional proxy, has been engaged in escalating cross-border strikes with Israeli forces for the reason that warfare in Gaza started greater than six months in the past. Within the newest strike, it stated had launched a drone assault on an Israeli navy barracks roughly 10 miles from the Lebanese border. The extent of any injury was not instantly clear.
The Israeli navy stated that it had “efficiently intercepted” two aerial assaults off the northern coast however didn’t touch upon Hezbollah’s declare that it had hit the navy barracks.
Footage that circulated Tuesday on Hezbollah-affiliated Telegram channels, and geolocated by The New York Occasions, exhibits folks on a seaside in Acre wanting up on the sky as sirens go off and an explosion is heard.
The assault got here after focused killings by Israel of two Hezbollah fighters in southern Lebanon, each of whom the Israeli navy claimed had been concerned in Hezbollah’s aerial operations. The killings in a single day and on Tuesday had been the most recent in a string of assassinations of Hezbollah commanders and fighters, because the Lebanese militant group more and more employs self-detonating drones to focus on Israeli navy websites.
Final week, Hezbollah claimed accountability for a drone and missile assault into northern Israel that left one soldier useless and 16 troopers and two civilians injured, in one of many group’s most damaging assaults in Israel in latest months.
Hwaida Saad, Johnatan Reiss and Arijeta Lajka contributed reporting.
