Lebanon’s Hezbollah announced on Tuesday that it had launched a drone attack on military targets near Acre in northern Israel, explaining that the expected response to Israel’s killing of one of its senior leaders last week had not yet come.
A Hezbollah source told Reuters that the attack was not in response to Israel’s killing of Hezbollah military commander Fouad Shukr in Beirut last week, for which the group has vowed to avenge his death, raising fears of a major escalation that could turn into a full-scale war.
According to Reuters, “an air attack with a squadron of suicide drones targeted the headquarters of the Golani Brigade and the headquarters of the Egoz Unit 621 in the Shraga barracks north of occupied Acre, and hit their targets accurately, achieving confirmed hits.”
According to a report published by the Times of Israel, a series of alarms sounded warning of infiltration of missiles and drones in northern Israeli towns and cities, including Acre.
He added that he targeted an Israeli military vehicle in another location.
The Israeli army said it had detected a number of hostile drones crossing from Lebanon, and intercepted one of them.
Several civilians were wounded south of the coastal city of Nahariya, he said. Reuters TV footage showed the site of the strike near a bus station on a main road outside the city.
The Israeli army added in a statement that sirens sounded in Acre, but it turned out to be a false alarm. It said the air force targeted two Hezbollah buildings in southern Lebanon.
Fears are growing that the Middle East could slide into a full-scale war after Hezbollah vowed to avenge the killing of military commander Fouad Shukr, and Iran vowed to respond to the assassination of Ismail Haniyeh, head of the political bureau of the Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), in Tehran last week.
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2024-08-07 18:41:37