Hezbollah targets north Israel, troops in south Lebanon

Hezbollah said its fighters launched drones and rockets at northern Israel on Thursday, with the Israeli military's Home Front Command saying air raid sirens were activated across the border.

In north Israel, Hezbollah targeted Even Menachem, Ga'aton, Wadi Hunin, Yir'on, Malikiyah, Avivim, Metula, Kiryat Shmona, Safad, Beit Hillel, Misgav Am and Kiryat Ata east of Haifa, with attack drones and rocket salvos.

The group also targeted Israeli troops and tanks in Qantara, Taybeh, Kfarkela, Rshaf, Beit Leef, Qawzah, and Ainatha in south Lebanon.

Israeli artillery meanwhile violently shelled Rashaya al-Fakhar, Zawtar, Arnoun, Yohmor-Shqif, and al-Khiam amid fierce clashes with Hezbollah. Troops also detonated houses and burned farmlands in the southern border villages of Khiam, Naqoura, Bayyada, and Debel, and strikes targeted Debbine, Marjaoun and Shebaa.

The National News Agency said troops advancing into border villages were burning, destroying, and bulldozing houses and lands there.

Israel had announced plans to destroy all homes in Lebanese villages near the border to create a strategic buffer zone and secure northern Israel.

Elsewhere in south Lebanon, Israel struck Kafra, Bint Jbeil, Tiri, Dallefeh, Blat, Mansouri, Kfarseer, Zebdine, Harouf, and al-Ramadieh. Seven people were killed in the strikes.

On Wednesday night, Hezbollah said it targeted with rocket salvos an Israeli base in the occupied Golan heights, Kfar Giladi, Metula, Misgav Am, Nahariya, Shomera, Ma'ayan Baruch and Kfar Yuval in north Israel.

It also claimed rocket and suicide drones attacks on soldiers in south Lebanon's Bayyada, Deir al-Seryan, Qantara, Markaba, Odaisseh, Qawzah, Rob Tlatine, and Ainatha.

In addition to attacks on troops and Merkava tanks in south Lebanon, Hezbollah has also recently claimed attacks on drones.

On Wednesday and Thursday, Hezbollah said it shot down Hermes 450 drones and intercepted an Israeli warplane and a helicopter over south Lebanon with surface-to-air missiles.

In al Batroun, north of Beirut, an unidentified drone crashed in an open wooded area on the outskirts of the village of Asia. The incident caused only material damage, with no casualties reported among civilians.