Hezbollah fires Burkan rockets on Israel as drone strikes house in Yarin
Hezbollah fired Friday heavy-caliber Burkan rockets at the al-Jirdah Israeli post as Israeli shelling hit at least 10 southern Lebanese border towns.
Hezbollah also targeted the Bayyad Blida Israeli post and Israeli forces at the Mattat and the Ramim barracks, "inflicting deaths and injuries."
The Israeli artillery shelled several border towns including Tayr Harfa, Yarin, al-Majidiyyi, Kfarshouba, Kfarkila, al-Taybeh, al-Khiam, al-Dhaira, Houla, Mays al-Jabal, Blida, Mhaibib, Alma al-Shaab, Ramia, Aita al-Shaab, and al-Naqoura.
Lebanon's state news agency reported that an Israeli drone struck a house in the southern village of Yarin, wounding several people. It gave no further details.
Since Oct. 8, Hezbollah fighters have carried out scores of attacks — mostly targeting Israeli military posts along the border. Israeli artillery and warplanes have also been attacking areas on the Lebanese side of the border.
An Israeli drone had dropped earlier on Friday leaflets on the border village of Kfarshouba, warning its residents that Hezbollah is endangering their lives by using the area to launch attacks against Israel.
"The terrorist Hezbollah is taking advantage of the opportunity to infiltrate your homes and lands in order to act against the State of Israel. Hezbollah members hiding in civilian areas is the real danger! This is what will harm you!," the leaflet read.
Since the cross-border exchanges of fire began in October, more than 120 people have been killed on the Lebanese side of the frontier, most of them Hezbollah fighters but also including a Lebanese soldier and 17 civilians, three of them journalists, according to an AFP tally.
More than 64,000 people have been displaced in Lebanon, mostly in the south, figures from the International Organization for Migration show.
On the Israeli side, at least six soldiers and four civilians have been killed, authorities there have said.
On Thursday, an Israeli airstrike on the southern village of Markaba killed a Hezbollah fighter, raising to 101 the total number of the group’s members who have been killed since the latest round of fighting began.
Hezbollah official Ali Daamoush was defiant in his Friday prayers sermon, vowing that the group won't stop attacks along the border and also has no plans to move away from the frontier.
“The Israeli-American brutality can only be stopped by the resistance that can inflict losses on the enemy,” Daamoush said. “Intimidation and threats will not change the stance of the resistance and its presence on every inch of the south” of Lebanon.
