The Lebanese militant group Hezbollah claimed responsibility for a cross-border drone and missile attack in northern Israel on Wednesday, which the Israeli military said wounded 14 soldiers, six of them seriously.
It was one of the most devastating attacks by Hezbollah, Iran’s most powerful regional proxy, in recent months in its ongoing conflict with Israel. The conflict intensified after Israel targeted the killing of two Hezbollah commanders. There are growing fears of a wider conflict between Israel and Tehran, which launched massive airstrikes against Israel over the weekend.
Hezbollah says it attacked Israeli Bedouin border villages, arab alamshein response to Israeli air strikes A day earlier, the Israeli military said the commander had been killed. The attacks triggered a series of retaliatory attacks by Hezbollah on Israeli military bases and camps.
Hezbollah claimed Wednesday’s attack targeted Israeli military reconnaissance units. The military said six soldiers were seriously injured, two were moderately injured and six were slightly injured. The company said it had carried out strikes against Hezbollah targets in southern Lebanon in response to the attack.
For more than six months, Hezbollah and Israel have been locked in an escalating cross-border conflict triggered by the October 7 Hamas-led attack on Israel. Another Iranian proxy group.The fighting has displaced Tens of thousands of civilians on both sides of the borderIsraeli attacks in Lebanon have begun to spread in recent months Travel deep into the country’s interior.
Aaron Boxerman, Jonathan Rice and Gaby Sobelman Reporting from Jerusalem.
