(Beirut) Hezbollah announced Thursday the death of two of its fighters in Israeli strikes on southern Lebanon, at a time when the Lebanese movement intensified its attacks against Israeli military positions on the other side of the border .
Since the start of the war in the Gaza Strip between Israel and Hamas on October 7, Hezbollah has targeted positions in northern Israel in support of the Palestinian Islamist movement.
In a statement, pro-Iranian Hezbollah reported the death of two of its fighters in an Israeli strike without further details.
But according to the official Lebanese news agency ANI, the two people died in a strike on their car in the Qana region.
This strike took place after Hezbollah announced Thursday that it had fired “more than 60 Katyusha rockets” at Israeli military positions in the part of the Syrian Golan Heights occupied and annexed by Israel.
These shots are a “response to the attacks by the Israeli enemy last night on the Bekaa region” in eastern Lebanon, Hezbollah added in a statement.
Hezbollah claimed more than 10 attacks Thursday against Israeli army targets.
The Israeli army confirmed the firing from Lebanon of around “forty rockets” on the Golan and shells on northern Israel, which did not cause any casualties, adding that they had responded to the sources of the fire. .
She also reported on Thursday “an explosive drone from Lebanon which exploded in the Metoulla region in northern Israel. One soldier was seriously injured and two others were lightly injured.”
Hezbollah claimed responsibility for this “targeted attack against a military vehicle”.
During the night, five Israeli strikes targeted the Baalbeck region in the Bekaa, a Hezbollah stronghold in eastern Lebanon, according to ANI, which reported one injured person and “material damage”.
According to a source close to Hezbollah, one of the strikes targeted one of its military camps.
On Wednesday evening, Hezbollah claimed to have targeted a military base near Tiberias in northern Israel, about 30 kilometers from the border with Lebanon.
Since the start of the war in the Gaza Strip, Hezbollah attacks have generally been limited to positions near the border.
The Israeli army announced that it had “eliminated” in an airstrike on Tuesday evening a local Hezbollah commander, Hussein Makki, in the coastal town of Tire in southern Lebanon.
Seven months of cross-border violence have left at least 415 dead in Lebanon, most of them Hezbollah fighters, but also nearly 80 civilians, according to an AFP count.
On the Israeli side, at least 14 soldiers and ten civilians were killed in this violence.