IDF strikes S. Lebanon after Hezbollah attack
(IDF)
Barak Ayalon, a member of the local alert squad in Kfar Yuval located near the border with Lebanon, and his 76-year-old mother, Mira, were killed in an anti-tank missile strike on Sunday. They are the first fatalities on the Israel-Lebanon border in the past month.
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Similar anti-tank missile fire also targeted other communities along the border, but most landed in open fields. The Israeli Air Force conducted strikes on South Lebanon in response, targeting a military command and terror infrastructure. For security reasons, roads near the border were closed to civilian traffic and the entrance to some of the border-area communities was also prohibited.
Hezbollah, which claimed to be targeting Israel's military, fired the missiles shortly before a speech by the Iran-backed terror group's leader Hassan Nasrallah and hours after three terrorists were killed in an infiltration attempt across the border in the Sheba Farms area, while two other terrorists escaped. In the exchange of fire there, five IDF soldiers were injured.
Israel's military believes the infiltrating terrorists, who also launched grenades at the troops, were planning an attack inside Israel. A group calling itself the Islamic Battalions claimed responsibility for the five-man squad that attempted to infiltrate, claiming the attempt was in retaliation for the killing of Saleh al-Arouri, the senior Hamas leader who died in an explosion in Beirut earlier this month.
Similar anti-tank missile fire also targeted other communities along the border but most landed in open areas. The air force conducted strikes on South Lebanon in response, targeting a military command and terror infrastructure. For security reasons, roads near the border were closed to civilian traffic and the entrance to some of the border area communities was also prohibited.