Tens of thousands of civilians have fled their homes on both sides of the border. (Representative)
Beirut:
Lebanon's Iran-backed Hezbollah group said Wednesday it launched a drone and missile strike on an Israeli base in response to attacks that killed three Hezbollah fighters the day before.
Israel and Hamas ally Hezbollah have been exchanging cross-border fire almost daily since the Palestinian group attacked southern Israel on October 7, sparking a war in the Gaza Strip.
But Wednesday's incident marked the third straight day that Hezbollah has attacked wounded people in Israel, with regional tensions running high after Iran launched a direct attack on Israel over the weekend in retaliation for a deadly attack on Tehran's Damascus consulate.
Hezbollah said it “launched a combined attack with guided missiles and explosive drones on a new military reconnaissance command center in Arab al-Aramshe,” an Arab-majority village in northern Israel.
The attack came “in response to the enemy's killing of a number of resistance fighters in Ain Baal and Shehabiya on Tuesday,” the movement said.
Magen David Adom, Israel's equivalent of the Red Cross, said six people were injured after an attack in the Western Galilee.
The six injured are “men in their 30s, one in serious condition,” rescuers said on X, formerly Twitter.
The Israeli military said that “a number of launches from Lebanon were identified that entered the Arab al-Aramshe area,” adding that these hit the sources of the fire.
On Tuesday, Israel said its strikes in southern Lebanon killed two local Hezbollah commanders and another operative, with the Iran-backed group saying three of its members were killed when it launched rockets in retaliation.
Local Israeli authorities said three people were injured in an attack from Lebanon earlier that day.
On Monday, Hezbollah targeted Israeli forces with explosives, wounding four soldiers who crossed into Lebanese territory, the first attack in six months of clashes.
The violence has killed at least 368 people in Lebanon, mostly Hezbollah fighters but also at least 70 civilians, according to an AFP count.
In Israel, the military says 10 soldiers and eight civilians have been killed near its northern border since hostilities began.
Tens of thousands of civilians have fled their homes on both sides of the border, with the violence fueling fears of a full-scale conflict between Hezbollah and Israel, which last culminated in war in 2006.
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