Israeli fighter jets struck several buildings used by Hezbollah in southern Lebanon’s Odaisseh, the military says.
Several rockets and missiles were also fired by Hezbollah at northern Israel today, including one impacting the evacuated border community of Netu’a.
There were no injuries in the attacks, and the IDF says it shelled the launch sites with artillery.
Hezbollah launches drones at north after IDF kills Hamas commander in Lebanon
The Hezbollah terror group on Saturday launched several explosive-laden drones at northern Israel, saying the attack was in response to an Israeli strike that killed a Hamas commander in Lebanon.
Hezbollah said it targeted the Michve Alon military base near Maghar, which the Lebanese terror group claimed was used by the Israel Defense Forces as a staging ground and as a munitions depot.
Michve Alon, located some 18 kilometers (11 miles) from the Lebanon border, is a training base of the IDF’s Education and Youth Corps.
A Hezbollah statement said it launched drone “squadrons” at Israel following the “Zionist strike” Friday in the Lebanese southern port city of Sidon that killed Samer al-Hajj, who commanded Hamas’s military forces in the nearby Ein el-Hilweh Palestinian refugee camp.
The IDF later confirmed that several explosive-laden drones were launched in the Hezbollah attack, which set off air raid sirens in numerous northern communities.
According to the IDF, one of the drones was intercepted by air defenses, while the others impacted areas in northern Israel, causing damage
However, a treatment and rehabilitation center for people with disabilities was hit and severely damaged.
Beni Ben Muvchar, head of the Mevo’ot HaHermon Regional Council, told Ynet that a likely Iron Dome interceptor had landed in the center’s indoor pool and wreaked havoc, without causing casualties.
Amid global criticism, Israel names 19 it says it killed in terror HQ at Gaza school
The IDF and Shin Bet security agency on Saturday night named 19 Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad terror operatives that it said it killed in an airstrike Saturday morning on a Hamas and Islamic Jihad command room at the Taba’een school in Gaza City.
The Gaza Strip’s Hamas-run civil defense agency claimed over 90 people were killed in the airstrike, describing the incident as a “horrific massacre.” Several Western diplomats, the Egyptian and Qatari mediators of ceasefire-for-hostage talks and numerous Muslim countries denounced Israel over the airstrike.
According to the IDF, the strike was carried out using three “precision munitions” against the two terror groups’ command room embedded within a mosque at the Taba’een school complex.
The military said that footage from after the strike showed that there was no major damage to the surrounding school complex. It also said that the missiles “could not have caused the damage that corresponds to the casualty reports of the government media office in Gaza.”
In English-language remarks later Saturday, IDF Spokesman Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari said that according to “various intelligence indications” there was a “high probability” that the commander of Islamic Jihad’s Central Camps Brigade, Ashraf Juda, was also at the school when it was struck. He said it was not yet clear if Juda was killed in the strike
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