The Israel Defense Forces said Saturday it carried out “widespread” strikes on Hezbollah sites in southern Lebanon as the Iran-backed terror group continued to attack communities in northern Israel with rockets and drones.
According to the IDF, strikes were carried out in two waves on a series of sites belonging to the terror group in Kafr Kila on Saturday morning and afternoon.
The IDF said Kafr Kila is a Hezbollah stronghold, where the terror group “uses the infrastructure in the area for terror purposes, exploiting the civilian population and using it as a human shield for its operations.”
Many rocket and missile attacks against Israel have been carried out from the village, according to the military.
The IDF said a fighter jet and other aircraft also struck three terror cells in southern Lebanon on Saturday.
The IDF also hit targets in Bint Jbeil and Marwahin in southern Lebanon, footage released by the army showed.
The IDF says it carried out "widespread" strikes on Hezbollah sites in Kfarkela in southern Lebanon. According to the IDF, the strikes were carried in two waves on a series of sites belonging to the terror group this morning and afternoon. The IDF says Kfarkela is a Hezbollah
The strikes came in response to Hezbollah rocket, missile, and drone attacks on northern Israel.
In one of the incidents Saturday, an anti-tank missile narrowly missed a vehicle in the Upper Galilee.
A 65-year-old man was lightly injured by the blast, but did not require hospitalization, according to Hebrew-language media reports.
Two explosive-laden drones launched from Lebanon hit open areas in the Mount Dov region on the Lebanon border, while another “suspicious aerial target” that entered Israeli airspace was downed by air defenses.
Meanwhile, an alleged Israeli airstrike was reported in northern Syria’s Aleppo.
Syria’s state-run SANA news agency, citing a military source, said “material losses” were caused in the alleged Israeli airstrike on Aleppo.
It said the Israeli fighter jets launched their missiles from over the Mediterranean Sea, west of Latakia, hitting several sites in Aleppo.
The report did not elaborate on the sites that were hit, but other media outlets in Syria said sites in the vicinity of Aleppo International Airport were targeted in the strike.
According to Israel’s Kan public broadcaster, munition warehouses belonging to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ Quds Force were targeted.
Israel has for years carried out aerial attacks on Iran-linked targets in Syria, where Tehran’s influence has grown since it began supporting Syrian President Bashar Assad in a civil war that started in 2011. Israel rarely comments on these individual strikes, but it has repeatedly said it will not allow arch-foe Iran to expand its presence there.
#Syria: at least 6 successive explosions were heard amidst Israeli bombardment on #Aleppo International Airport (which didn't reopen since last strike in October). Looks like a massive strike.
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