Another day of bloody confrontations between Hezbollah and Israel is escalating, with the conflict now reaching areas beyond the southern borders, including the Bekaa Valley and specifically the city of Baalbek, which has become a target for Israel, in one way or another. This morning, Hezbollah launched rocket salvos in two waves from southern Lebanon toward Kiryat Shmona and the Upper Galilee.
The party announced that it had struck Kiryat Shmona in northern Israel with dozens of rockets in retaliation for the Israeli bombardment of the town of Al-Habbariyeh earlier this Wednesday. Previously, Hezbollah had stated that the Israeli attack on Al-Habbariyeh, which resulted in the deaths of seven paramedics, would not go unpunished.
The Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported today that a person, aged 25, was killed in a rocket attack on Kiryat Shmona, originating from Lebanon this morning. The Israeli military confirmed that at least 30 rockets were launched at Kiryat Shmona.
In the early evening hours, the Israeli army opened fire with light and medium machine guns from the Metula settlement, targeting residential neighborhoods in the town of Kfar Kila, with the gunfire also reaching the edges of the village of Adaisseh.
Furthermore, there were reports of drone flights over Tulin and nearby areas, as well as some regions along the Lebanese coast. Notably, for the first time since the outbreak of the Gaza war, Israeli warplanes targeted two towns in the Bekaa yesterday, resulting in the deaths of two Hezbollah members. This is the furthest bombing from the southern border that has occurred so far amidst the exchange of fire between Hezbollah and Israel since the onset of the war.
Israel confirmed that it conducted airstrikes near Ras Baalbek and Hermel and stated that its aircraft targeted several military sites used by Hezbollah in response to a missile attack on one of its bases near the Lebanese border. A missile had hit a house in the town of Al-Dhahira at nine o'clock in the evening but did not explode.
Throughout the skies of the western and central sectors, leading up to the outskirts of the city of Tyre, there was a heavy presence of warplanes and reconnaissance flights that continued until the early hours of dawn. Additionally, the Israeli army fired flares over the border villages adjacent to the Blue Line, along with incendiary bombs targeting the forests of the towns of Naqoura and Alama Al-Shab.
