The Lebanese Shia group “Hezbollah“ announced that it had attacked northern Israel with drones early this morning. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF), for its part, reported that two of its servicemen were wounded and that a fire had broken out, the Associated Press reported, citing BTA.
„Hezbollah“ indicated that the strikes were aimed at a military base in northern Israel in response to the “attacks and killings” that the IDF carried out in several villages in southern Lebanon.
There are no signs that today's attack by the Iran-backed group is part of the expected retaliation for the assassination of its high-ranking commander Fuad Shukr, AP commented. He died on July 30 in an Israeli air strike on Beirut. Hours later, the leader of the political wing of “Hamas” was also killed in Tehran. Ismail Hania.
Over the past 10 months, Israel and “Hezbollah” they exchanged fire almost daily, but both sides managed to keep the conflict within relatively moderate limits and it did not escalate into a full-scale war. However, tensions have escalated since the Shukr and Haniya murders, and Israel is bracing for retaliation from Iran and its allied militias.