Hezbollah targets barracks in northern Israel with drones
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Translations – Abu Dhabi
Circulating video of the drone’s fall
Circulating video of the drone’s fall
The Lebanese Hezbollah announced, at dawn on Monday, the implementation of an air attack with drones on the headquarters of the 91st Division in the “Eyelet” barracks, northern Israel.
Hezbollah said in a statement: “Resistance fighters launched an air attack with a squadron of attack drones on the headquarters of the newly established 91st Division in the Eyelet barracks, targeting the locations and stability of its officers and soldiers and directly hitting them, killing and wounding a number of them.”
The Israeli army issued a statement saying: “As a result of the drone attack on “Eyelet Hashahar”, an officer and a soldier were injured and transferred to the hospital.”
It explained that “several suspicious air targets crossing from Lebanon were identified and interceptor missiles were fired at them.”
He pointed out that “Israeli firefighting services are currently working to extinguish a fire that broke out in the area as a result of the attack.”
The Israeli Army Radio announced, at dawn on Monday, the activation of air raid sirens for fear of drones infiltrating Kiryat Shmona and a number of towns in northern Israel.
The Israeli army stated that “air raid sirens were sounded in the (Eilet Hashahar) area in northern Israel.”
Channel 13 Israel said on Sunday evening that the Israeli leadership had made contacts with its allies to ensure their participation in the operation to repel any Iranian attack.
Tensions in the region have risen following the assassination of Ismail Haniyeh, head of the political bureau of the Hamas movement in the Iranian capital Tehran on Wednesday, a day after an Israeli raid in Beirut killed Fouad Shukr, a senior military commander in the Lebanese Hezbollah group allied with Iran.
Fears are growing that the war that Israel has been waging on Palestinian fighters in Gaza since October will turn into a wider conflict in the Middle East.
Iran and Hamas accuse Israel of assassinating Haniyeh, and have vowed, along with Hezbollah, to take revenge.
Israel has neither claimed responsibility for the assassination of Haniyeh nor denied it.
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According to Channel 13, the assessments of senior members of the Israeli security apparatus believe that Iran has not fully decided on the nature and strength of the response (to the assassination of Haniyeh).
The Israeli channel added that Hezbollah is looking for a target that will harm Israel, but it is not interested in turning the confrontation into a large-scale war.
On Sunday, a White House official reported that the United States will deploy additional military capabilities in the Middle East as a defensive measure aimed at calming tensions in the region.
The US Department of Defense said on Friday that it will deploy additional fighter jets and Navy warships in the region.
