Hezbollah said its fighters launched a drone attack on Friday targeting a military base in northern Israel, near the border, after claiming rocket fire at the same area.
Hezbollah fighters launched "an air attack with a swarm of explosives-laden drones" on the base located east of Safad, the group said in a statement, shortly after announcing it had fired "a salvo of rockets" at the town.
Israeli warplanes had launched strikes on Choueifat, Hadath, Haret Hreik, and Borj al-Barajneh in Beirut’s southern suburbs overnight.
- Hezbollah attacks Israeli troops on Lebanon border -
Hezbollah fighters hit Friday a force of Israeli soldiers, a military truck, and two tanks in the outskirts of the border village of Adaysseh. Fighters also struck a tank near the village of Marwahin and another in Houla.
The fighters hit a troop vehicle and "two Merkava tanks on the outskirts of Adaysseh with guided missiles", the group said, adding that the attacks caused casualties.
Fighters targeted 12 soldiers on the outskirts of Adaysseh "with a guided missile" and then attacked "a Hummer military vehicle" that came to their assistance.
Hezbollah operatives in the nearby village of Houla also hit an Israeli tank and fired "automatic weapons, artillery shells and rockets" at accompanying troops.
- Five Israel soldiers killed in south Lebanon -
The Israeli army said on Friday that five soldiers were killed and two others seriously wounded in fighting in southern Lebanon.
The soldiers "fell during combat in southern Lebanon" the previous day, the army said in a statement, bringing the total number of Israeli soldiers killed in Lebanon to 32 since the start of the ground operation on September 30.
- 2 killed in Israel's Majd Al-Krum -
Two people died after being wounded by shrapnel from a rocket barrage launched from Lebanon into northern Israel on Friday, the hospital and the army said.