The pro-Iranian movement claimed responsibility for the strikes in response to an Israeli attack that killed a local commander of the Lebanese formation.
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Lebanese Hezbollah claimed on Wednesday, May 15, to have intensively targeted military objectives in northern Israel, and for the first time a military base near Tiberias, approximately 30 kilometers from the border with Lebanon. The pro-Iranian movement claimed responsibility for these attacks in response to an Israeli strike which killed a local commander of the Lebanese formation the day before.
Since the start of the war in the Gaza Strip between Israel and Hamas on October 7, daily cross-border exchanges of fire have pitted the Israeli army against Hezbollah, which claims to support the Palestinian Islamist movement. In a statement, Hezbollah assured that its fighters have “launched an air attack using several drones” on a base located west of Tiberias.
Hezbollah attacks have until now been limited to Israeli towns and bases located on the border with Lebanon. Earlier in the day, the Lebanese movement said it had launched “dozens of Katyusha rockets” on the Meron military air control base, in northern Israel, and also targeted the Biranit barracks. This bombing took place in response “to the assassination carried out by the Israeli enemy in southern Lebanon”, added the press release. Alarm sirens sounded in Meron, according to the Israeli army.
The Israeli army announced that it had “eliminated” in an airstrike a local Hezbollah commander, Hussein Makki, in the coastal city of Tire in southern Lebanon. The Lebanese team confirmed the death of Makki, 55. A source close to Hezbollah told AFP that he was a “local commander” of the movement.
