Hezbollah fighter killed in strike on Markaba
Hezbollah targeted Friday Ramia and Hadb Yaroun in north Israel and fired overnight anti-aircraft missiles at Israeli warplanes in south Lebanon forcing them to retreat beyond the border.
The group said it targeted technical equipment in the Ramia post and soldiers in the Hadb Yaroun post, in support of Gaza. It later targeted two posts in the occupied Shebaa Farms and Kfarshouba Heights.
Israeli warplanes had raided overnight a house in the outskirts of Aita al-Shaab in south Lebanon and struck Friday morning the outskirts of Markaba, reportedly killing at least one person.
Hezbollah announced the death of one of its fighters, Abbas Hammoud, from Markaba, "on the road to Jerusalem" and said it targeted buildings used by soldiers in Shtula in response to attacks on civilians in south Lebanon and to the overnight strike on Aita al-Shaab.
On Thursday, Hezbollah attacked an Israeli military base in Neve Ziv in northern Israel with explosive drones after one of its members was killed in an Israeli airstrike in the southern town of Rab Tlaine.
Since early October, Israeli strikes in Lebanon have killed more than 450 people, mostly Hezbollah members, but also around 90 civilians and noncombatants. On the Israeli side, 21 soldiers and 13 civilians have been killed.
