The Iranian-backed Hezbollah militia in Lebanon claims to have fired 60 rockets at an Israeli military base. Hezbollah said today that the Katyusha rocket attack was in retaliation for Israeli strikes in eastern Lebanon. The militia said the target of the attack was an Israeli military base in the occupied Golan Heights.
The Israeli army said today that it attacked targets in eastern Lebanon for the first time since the start of the war in the Gaza Strip. Two Hezbollah fighters were killed, security sources said.
The Israeli army said it was “in retaliation for the firing of a surface-to-air missile at an Israeli drone earlier in the day.” The Hezbollah militia had already announced that it had shot down an Israeli drone in southern Lebanon.
Israel: Hezbollah brigade commander killed
Israel also said it had killed a senior officer of the Shiite Hezbollah militia in an airstrike in southern Lebanon. The Israeli army said brigade commander Hussein Salami was deliberately killed because he led rocket attacks against the northern Israeli town of Kiriat Shmona and against a local Israeli military command.
Salami was driving in the village of Madschadel, 20 kilometers east of Tyre, when he was hit by a guided missile launched by an Israeli fighter jet. Hezbollah confirmed Salami's death in an Israeli attack, but did not provide details about his position.