(Beirut) An Israeli strike targeted a building belonging to Hezbollah in eastern Lebanon on Sunday, a few hours after an unprecedented attack carried out overnight by Iran against Israel, said a source from the pro-Iranian party and the Israeli army.
“An Israeli raid targeted […] a two-story building belonging to Hezbollah”, in the Bekaa plain, a stronghold of the powerful Lebanese formation close to the border with Syria, the source told AFP.
The National Information Agency (Ani, official) indicated that “the enemy raid” had “destroyed a building in the village of Nabi Chit”, not far from the town of Baalbeck.
An AFP photographer on site was able to see that the building was nothing more than a pile of concrete.
An Israeli army spokesperson, Avichay Adraee, said the Israeli fighters had targeted “an important site” for “Hezbollah weapons production” “deep” in Lebanon, in response to nighttime attacks by the Shiite training.
Iran launched more than 300 drones and missiles against Israel overnight, in response to a strike against its consulate in Damascus, an unprecedented direct Iranian attack which was “foiled” according to the Israeli army.
While this attack was taking place, Hezbollah announced that it had launched two salvos of Katyusha rockets at Israeli military positions located in the Israeli-occupied Syrian Golan.
These attacks are a continuation of the anti-Israeli operations claimed by the Lebanese Islamist group for six months against Israel.
Since the start of the war in the Gaza Strip between Israel and Hamas on October 7, there have been daily exchanges of fire between the Israeli army and Hezbollah, which claims to support its ally, the Palestinian Islamist movement.
The Israeli air force, for its part, carried out several raids since the night, which continued on Sunday afternoon, on localities in southern Lebanon, according to Ani.
Hezbollah announced on Sunday the death of a fighter from Khiam, a town hard hit by Israeli bombings according to the agency.
His death brings to at least 364 the number of people killed in more than six months of violence in Lebanon, mainly Hezbollah fighters but also some 70 civilians, according to an AFP count.
In northern Israel, ten soldiers and eight civilians were killed according to the army.