GHANDOURIYEH, Lebanon — Israel’s navy mentioned no injury was brought about to one in all its military bases in northern Israel after Hezbollah mentioned it launched explosive drones Tuesday towards the realm, whereas an Israeli drone strike in Lebanon killed three members of the militant group, officers mentioned.
The Israeli navy didn’t specify precisely the place the bottom was situated. Hezbollah mentioned it focused the Israeli military’s northern command headquarters in Safed with a number of drones.
Hezbollah mentioned the assault was in retaliation for an Israeli strike in Beirut final week that killed prime Hamas official Saleh Arouri and 6 others, and for a drone strike on Monday that killed Hezbollah commander Wissam al-Tawil, probably the most senior member of the Iran-backed group to be killed in latest months.
Safed is a metropolis away from the place every day Israel-Hezbollah skirmishes have been happening.
The Israeli navy mentioned its air protection system was activated to attempt to intercept “hostile plane” and {that a} projectile struck the bottom, with out specifying the place it hit.
Hezbollah later mentioned it additionally attacked a minimum of three Israeli posts alongside the border.
In Lebanon’s southern village of Ghandouriyeh, an Israeli drone strike hit a automotive on Tuesday, killing three Hezbollah members, in keeping with two safety officers and a Hezbollah official. It got here a day after al-Tawil was killed in a drone strike in a close-by village.
The officers spoke on situation of anonymity according to briefing rules.
Tuesday’s assaults comparatively removed from areas of operations alongside the Lebanon-Israel border present the rising tensions alongside the frontier since Hezbollah began attacking Israeli navy posts following the lethal Oct. 7 assault on southern Israel by the Palestinian militant group Hamas. Hezbollah says by preserving Israel’s northern entrance lively, they’re serving to cut back strain on Hamas in Gaza.
Hezbollah has misplaced 150 fighters within the near-daily exchanges of fireplace.
There was no fast phrase on the identities of the three Hezbollah members who have been killed within the strike on Ghandouriyeh, about 10 kilometers (6 miles) from the border with Israel.
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Related Press writers Tia Goldenberg in Tel Aviv, Israel, and Bassem Mroue in Beirut contributed to this report.