(MENAFN-IANS) Beirut, August 27 (IANS) Hezbollah said it used a suicide drone to attack Israeli “spy equipment” at the Ramyah site in northern Israel, scoring a direct hit.
“In support of the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip and their resistance, our fighters targeted and directly hit the spy equipment at the Ramyah site with a suicide drone,” the Shiite group said on Monday evening.
Anonymous military sources in Lebanon told Xinhua that Israeli drones and fighter jets carried out 12 air strikes on border towns and villages in southern Lebanon on Monday.
The attacks targeted a car and two motorcycles and caused only material damage, the Xinhua news agency reported.
They added that an Israeli drone fired two air-to-ground missiles at a vehicle traveling on the main road in the Abra area, setting the car on fire. The driver, reportedly a leader of a Palestinian faction, survived the attack.
Israeli artillery shelled 16 border towns in southern Lebanon, destroying 11 houses and damaging about 24 others. However, no casualties were reported.
Since early Sunday morning, there have been extensive exchanges of fire between Israeli and Hezbollah forces along the Israeli-Lebanese border, representing a clear escalation of their conflict.
Hezbollah said it fired hundreds of rockets at Israel in retaliation for the killing of its commander, Fouad Shokor, in an Israeli airstrike on Beirut last month.
In response, Israel reported numerous preemptive strikes against Hezbollah rocket launchers in southern Lebanon.
Tensions along the Lebanese-Israeli border have escalated since October 8, 2023, when Hezbollah fired rockets toward Israel on October 7 in solidarity with Hamas’ attack on Israel.
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