BEIRUT, (PIC)
8 Lebanese, including 4 Hezbollah party fighters, were martyred on Friday due to Israeli missile attacks that targeted various locations in southern Lebanon, while the party announced its shelling of Israel’s Miron military base.
The Israeli occupation army announced the assassination of Muhammad Najm in an air strike on Mais al-Jabal, whom they said was “a prominent element in Hezbollah’s missile unit.”
Prior to this targeting, 7 people, including a child, were martyred due to Israeli airstrikes on southern Lebanon, with Hezbollah mourning at least 4 of them.
The Lebanese Ministry of Health said that 3 martyrs were killed in an Israeli airstrike that targeted the town of Tire Harfa in southern Lebanon. Hezbollah mourned three of its elements who were killed in the shelling of the town of Tire Harfa, before the party mourned a fourth element.
The occupation army stated that forces of the 146th Division spotted a cell that was planning to launch rockets at Israeli targets, and the force directed an Israeli Air Force aircraft that eliminated the cell in the Tire Harfa area in southern Lebanon.
While media sources said the shelling was carried out by a drone, the army statement said, “After eliminating the cell, the launch of a rocket from the attack area was observed, indicating the presence of combat means and rockets in the place.”
The Israeli occupation army’s artillery also shelled targets in the Shebaa area in southern Lebanon, according to the statement, which did not provide further details.
In the town of Aita al-Shaab, the Lebanese Ministry of Health, in a second statement, reported the martyrdom of two people, one of them a 7-year-old child, as a result of Israeli missile strikes.
The National News Agency reported the martyrdom of two people, one in an Israeli airstrike on the town of Mais al-Jabal, and the other in an airstrike on a motorcycle in the town of Aitaroun, with the two strikes injuring 3 people.
For its part, Hezbollah announced the shelling of surveillance equipment at the headquarters of the monitoring unit and the air operations management at the Israeli Miron base.
The Israeli army radio reported that anti-tank missiles were fired from Lebanon and hit an air force monitoring base on Mount Meron near the southern Lebanese border.
The army radio, citing unnamed security officials, explained that missiles fired from Lebanon hit the air force monitoring base on Mount Meron, noting that the base continues to operate.
Earlier, a house in the Zar’it settlement in the Upper Galilee region was hit by missiles fired from southern Lebanon, while Hezbollah announced that it had carried out 12 attacks on Israeli military targets.
This comes as Israel is anticipating retaliatory responses from Iran and Hezbollah for the assassinations of the political bureau chief of Hamas, Ismail Haneyya, in Tehran, and the prominent Hezbollah leader Fuad Shukr in Beirut, last month.
