Hezbollah attacks Israeli air defense center in Golan
Hezbollah attacked Monday a military base in the Golan Heights with suicide drones.
The group said it had successfully attacked "an air and missile defense base" in a barracks in the Golan Heights with four suicide drones.
Hezbollah also targeted the Jal al-Alam post in northern Israel and a group of soldiers on the Tayhat Hill.
Earlier on Monday, the Israeli army dropped leaflets on south Lebanon for the second time since the Israel-Hamas war began, warning residents that Hezbollah is endangering their lives.
Since October 8, the day after the Israel-Hamas war started, the frontier between Lebanon and Israel has seen deadly exchanges of fire, mainly between the Israeli army and Hezbollah, which says it is acting in support of Palestine.
A drone dropped the Leaflets Monday over al-Wazzani, a small Lebanese village in the Hasbaya District.
"To the residents of south Lebanon, Hezbollah is putting your lives and the lives of your families at risk," read the leaflet. "Hezbollah's weapons and members are entering your residential areas. From the yard of your homes at the expense of your families," the text added.
On Sunday, Hezbollah carried out 12 attacks on northern Israel and the occupied Shebaa Farms after an Israeli strike Saturday on a house in Kherbet Selem left five dead.
At least 312 people have been killed in Lebanon since the start of cross-border violence on October 8, most of them Hezbollah fighters but also including 53 civilians, according to an AFP tally.
On the Israeli side, 10 soldiers and seven civilians have been killed, according to the latest official figures.
Tens of thousands of people have been displaced by the fighting on both sides of the border.
Strikes have largely remained confined to border regions for the moment, but several have hit Hezbollah positions further north in recent weeks, raising fears of a full-blown conflict.
The group has repeatedly said that it will only stop its attacks on Israel with a ceasefire in Gaza.
But Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant said recently that any truce in Gaza would not change Israel's goal of pushing Hezbollah out of southern Lebanon, by force or diplomacy.
Source: Naharnet
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