Lebanon announced today the death of two people in an Israeli attack in the south of the country, after the Lebanese group Hezbollah claimed responsibility for attacks in northern Israel.
“The Israeli enemy attack on the southern city of Hula this morning left two people dead,” the Lebanese Health Ministry said in a statement quoted by the French news agency AFP.
Hezbollah confirmed the deaths of two members of the group, according to the Spanish news agency Europa Press. Firefights between Iran-backed Hezbollah and Israel on the Israeli-Lebanese border have been almost daily since the start of the war in the Gaza Strip 10 months ago.
Hezbollah has blamed its attacks from southern Lebanon on northern Israel on its support for its Palestinian ally Hamas, whose attack on Israeli soil on October 7 triggered the current war. Fears of a regional spread of the war have been rife since an Israeli strike killed a Hezbollah military chief in the southern suburbs of Beirut in late July. Hours earlier, the Hamas leader had been assassinated while he was in Tehran, which was attributed to Israel but has not been claimed.
Iran and Hezbollah have vowed to retaliate.
The pro-Iran movement said today that it had carried out an attack with drones “laden with explosives” against two Israeli military positions.
These were a barracks near the border and a base near the coastal city of Acre, located about 15 kilometers away, according to Hezbollah.
The attack was a response to the death on Saturday of a Hezbollah fighter in the Tyre region, in southern Lebanon, according to the group.
The Israeli army announced on Saturday that it had eliminated the commander of an elite Hezbollah unit in the Tyre region.
Since October 8, violence between Israel and Hezbollah has left at least 584 people dead in Lebanon, mostly fighters from the pro-Iran movement but also 128 civilians, according to an AFP tally. In Israel and the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, 22 soldiers and 26 civilians have been killed, according to Israeli authorities.
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