Israel struck 10 “terrorist targets,” including an arms depot of the pro-Iranian Hezbollah movement, on Tuesday, killing one of the group’s fighters, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said.
The militant was killed in an attack on the village of Beit Leef in southern Lebanon, the IDF said. The Shiite militia’s 10 “terrorist targets” were attacked in several different areas, he added.
“A weapons storage facility, terrorist infrastructure sites, military structures and a rocket launcher were hit in southern Lebanon,” the IDF said.
Hezbollah confirmed the death of one of its fighters. The militia typically does not provide details about when, where and how its members died.
The state-run National News Agency (NNA) said Israeli planes carried out airstrikes on an uninhabited house in an area between the cities of Jibsheet and Aadchit in southern Lebanon with two missiles, causing significant damage to them.
Lebanese security sources said three Lebanese civilians were injured in the Israeli attack on Jibsheet.
In retaliation, Hezbollah said in a statement “in response to the Israeli enemy attack that targeted the town of Jibsheet and led to civilian casualties,” it fired a barrage of Katyusha rockets into northern Israel.
The Magen David Adom rescue service reported that a man in his 30s died from serious injuries caused by rocket fragments. Previously, there were rocket alarms in towns on the border with Lebanon.
The IDF said around 10 rockets were fired from Lebanon into Israeli territory, with most intercepted. Identified an attack in HaGoshrim, in northern Israel. The IDF said it is currently retaliating against the source of the attack.
Earlier, Israeli warplanes broke the sound barrier over the capital and its suburbs, causing some panic among its residents, local residents and the official NNA news agency said.
After a rocket attack on the Druze town of Majdal Shams in the Israeli-annexed Golan Heights killed at least 12 children on Saturday, the Israeli government is preparing for a retaliatory attack.
Israel blamed Iran-backed Hezbollah for the attack, but the Lebanese Shiite movement denied any involvement.
On Tuesday, the Islamic Republic rejected Israel’s accusation that Hezbollah was involved.
“Why would Hezbollah bomb a region where the people themselves are against the Zionist regime?” said the Supreme Leader’s foreign policy adviser, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, referring to what Iran calls Israel.
Kamal Charrazi said that the Israeli accusations were just an excuse to further escalate the military conflict in the region.
But the IDF said it had identified the deadly missile as an Iranian-made Falak-1.
Charrazi threatened that if Israel attacked Lebanon now, it would have to prepare for “intensive counterreactions.”
The best solution for Israel would be to immediately end the war in Gaza to prevent further death and destruction, Charrazi said.
