Hezbollah retaliates to Kfarjoz 'massacre' with barrages of drones and rockets

Hezbollah targeted Friday military positions in northern Israel and in the occupied Shebaa and Kfarshouba regions with suicide drones and other weapons while Israeli warplanes raided twice the southern town of Bint Jbeil.

The jets targeted early Friday a house and later the al-Wadi region in Bint Jbeil, causing no casualties, the National News agency said. Later in the day, artillery shelled the southern border town of Kfarshouba.

Hezbollah for its part targeted Friday the al-Marj and the Bayyad Blida posts in northern Israel, and the Zebdine barracks in the occupied Shebaa Farms.

Hezbollah has been trading near-daily cross-border fire with Israeli forces since Palestinian militant group Hamas attacked Israel on October 7, sparking war in the Gaza Strip.

A strike Thursday on the village of Kfarjoz near Nabatieh, around 10 kilometers from the border with Israel, had killed three people, including a child.

In a statement posted to Telegram early Friday, Hezbollah said it had fired a barrage of Katyusha rockets at Israel's Northern Command "in response to the attack and assassination carried out" in Kfarjoz.

Also in response to the Kfarjoz "massacre", Hezbollah attacked with an array of suicide drones the Filon military base, southeast of Safad.

The cross-border violence since early October has killed about 622 people in Lebanon, mostly fighters but also including at least 142 civilians, according to an AFP tally.

On the Israeli side, including in the annexed Golan Heights, authorities have announced the deaths of at least 24 soldiers and 26 civilians.