10/8/2024–|Last update: 10/8/202408:15 PM (Makkah Time)
Two people were injured today, Saturday, as a result of an Israeli raid on the town of Majdal Silm in southern Lebanon. While Hezbollah announced that it had attacked 8 Israeli targets across the Lebanese border, the Israeli media spoke about Hezbollah developing its capabilities in terms of drones.
The Public Health Emergency Operations Center of the Ministry of Public Health reported that an Israeli raid on the town of Majdal Salm resulted in a citizen sustaining minor injuries, in addition to the injury of a paramedic in the Islamic Message Scouts while performing his humanitarian duty.
The two wounded were transferred to Tebnine Governmental Hospital to receive the necessary treatment, according to the same statement.
Al Jazeera's correspondent said that Israeli warplanes and drones launched raids on the towns of Houla, Tyre Harfa and Majdal Selem in southern Lebanon, wounding one person.
The correspondent added that Israeli artillery shelling targeted the towns of Aitaroun and Houla.
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Meanwhile, Al Jazeera's correspondent reported that air raid sirens were sounding in the city of Safed and in more than 20 locations in the Upper Galilee.
For its part, Hezbollah announced that it had bombed the settlement of Eilon with Katyusha rockets in response to the Israeli attacks on the towns of Tyre Harfa and Aita al-Shaab in southern Lebanon.
The party confirmed that we bombed the Zabadin and Ramtha sites in the occupied Lebanese Kfar Shuba hills with missiles, and targeted an Israeli technical system on Karantina Hill with guided missiles and achieved a direct hit.
Hezbollah also targeted the espionage equipment at the Misgav Am site, confirming that it achieved a direct hit.
The party said in a series of separate statements that it attacked the spy equipment at the Ramia site with a suicide drone, destroying it. The party also targeted a gathering of soldiers in Tal Shaar with missiles, and shelled the Al-Malikiyah site with artillery, confirming that direct hits were achieved.
In a related context, the Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth said that Hezbollah has developed its capabilities in terms of drones, and will rely on them in its attacks, noting that the strength of Hezbollah’s stockpile of missiles and rockets is known.
The newspaper added that Hezbollah increased its weapons stockpile in the last war by introducing drones, including suicide drones and others equipped for filming, and bombed many targets in Israel, and seeks to raise the level of threat.
In turn, the Israeli Walla website said that the scope of Hezbollah's strikes is expanding and reaching the Mount Jarmaq area and towns near Tiberias.
Since October 8, 2023, Lebanese and Palestinian factions in Lebanon, most notably Hezbollah, have been exchanging daily shelling with the Israeli occupation army across the “Blue Line” separating the two sides, resulting in hundreds of deaths and injuries, most of them on the Lebanese side.
The factions are linking the cessation of the bombing to Israel ending a war it has been waging with American support on the Gaza Strip since October 7, which has left more than 131,000 Palestinian martyrs and wounded, most of them children and women, and more than 10,000 missing, in one of the worst humanitarian disasters in the world.
This comes as Israel has been anticipating for days retaliatory responses from Iran, Hezbollah and Hamas over the assassination of the head of the political bureau of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), Ismail Haniyeh, in Tehran on July 31, and the prominent leader in the party, Fouad Shukr, in the southern suburbs of Beirut the day before.