Hezbollah on Thursday said its fighters carried out a simultaneous attack against 19 Israeli military posts along the tense Lebanon-Israel border, in the group's fiercest escalation against Israel since October 8 and on the eve of an anticipated speech by Hezbollah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah on the Israel-Hamas war and the border clashes.
Hezbollah said the attacks in which mortar fire and antitank missiles were used coincided with two suicide drone attacks on the main Israeli post in the occupied Shebaa Farms. Media reports said Israeli helicopters were seen transporting a large number of casualties from the site.
The military wing of the Palestinian militant group Hamas for its part said it fired 12 rockets from Lebanon toward the northern Israeli town of Kiryat Shmona.
The Qassam Brigades said in a statement that Thursday's rocket attack came in retaliation for the “occupation’s massacres against our people in Gaza.” The firing of the rockets coincided with Hezbollah's massive attack.
The Hamas attack wounded two people in Kiryat Shmona, Israel's Magen David Adom emergency medical service said. One of the wounded was "a 25-year-old man in moderate condition who was injured by shrapnel," the medical service said.