Hezbollah attacks Israeli posts near border amid Israeli airstrikes and shelling
Hezbollah on Saturday said it attacked four Israeli military barracks and posts on and near Lebanon's border, shortly after Israel carried out a drone strike on a pickup truck 45 kilometers deep into Lebanon.
In separate statements, Hezbollah identified the attacked posts as the Ramim barracks, the Hadb Yaroun area, the Hadb al-Bustan post and the al-Jirdah post. It also noted that the attack on Hadb Yaroun caused certain casualties after an Israeli armored infantry force was targeted.
The correspondent of Hezbollah’s al-Manar TV meanwhile suggested that Hezbollah used a heavy-caliber rocket to target the Ramim barracks, citing the rocket’s sound and smoke, “which resembled those resulting from hostile warplane strikes.”
“Its explosion activated alert sirens in Margaliot and even in Kiryat Shmona, whose defenders mistook its large shrapnel for drones!!” the reporter added.
The Israeli army for its part said no drones had crossed into Israel but rather a rocket “that landed in an open area in the town of Margaliot,” adding that it was firing retaliatory artillery shelling at the sources of fire in Lebanon.
Israeli warplanes meanwhile targeted the outskirts of the Lebanese border towns of Aita al-Shaab, Ramia and Marwahin, as Israeli artillery shelling pummeled the outskirts of Halta, al-Mari, Aitaroun, Maroun al-Ras, al-Labbouneh, Dhayra, Marwahin, Shanouh, Bastra and Kfarshouba.
