Israeli airstrikes after 5 troops injured in Hezbollah drone and missile attacks

The Israeli army said it was carrying out airstrikes on “a series of Hezbollah targets” on Friday evening in response to Hezbollah attacks earlier in the day.

“Three Israeli army soldiers were seriously wounded when an anti-tank missile was fired at a military post in the town of Manara,” Israeli army spokesman Avichay Adraee said in a post on the X platform.

“Another soldier was critically wounded and another was moderately injured when a hostile drone violated Israeli territory from Lebanon,” the spokesman added.

Lebanese media reports said the Israeli airstrikes targeted the southern town of Majdal Zoun, which lies around 10 kilometers away from Israel’s border. The strikes also targeted al-Khraibeh and the outskirts of Aita al-Shaab, Kfar Hamam and Yater, amid artillery shelling on the outskirts of Aita al-Shaab and Yaroun.

Hezbollah had earlier announced targeting two Israeli military posts with three attack drones.

A Hezbollah statement said the attacks were “in support of our resilient Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip and their valiant and honorable resistance.”

A Hezbollah official and a Lebanese security source had earlier said that seven Hezbollah members were killed in an Israeli airstrike Friday morning in Syria’s Homs.

Israel said that airstrike was carried out in retaliation to a drone strike on Israel’s Eilat. The Israeli army said the drone attack was carried out by an “organization” without mentioning its name.

Hezbollah also attacked several Israeli military posts with anti-tank missiles on Friday.