This Saturday, the Israeli Army launched a series of ground and air attacks against Hezbollah positions in Lebanonin response to the launch by the Lebanese Shiite group of more than 60 projectiles against an Intelligence center of the Israeli forces.

In a statement, the Israeli Army has reported that the Metula and Margaliot areas in northern Israel, in addition to Meron, where it has one of its main Intelligence centers. “In response, an Israeli Air Force drone attacked a terrorist cell responsible for launches towards the Metula area,” he highlighted.

In addition, Israeli aviation and ground forces launched attacks against Israeli targets. Hezbollah such as projectile launch sites, military positions and infrastructure of the Shiite group in several areas of southern Lebanon such as Ayta ash Shab, Yaroun and Ramyeh, according to the statement.

Hezbollah has confirmed having launched 62 projectiles against one of the main Intelligence centers in northern Israel, in his first response to the assassination on Tuesday of the number two of the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas, Saleh al Arourion the outskirts of Beirut in a bombing attributed to Israel.

“Very high” alert status

The Secretary General of Hezbollah, Hasan Nasrallah, warned this Friday that “wouldn’t go without an answer” the bombing for which Israel has not officially claimed responsibility. Israel is in a “very high state of alert” on its border with Lebanon, Israeli army spokesman Daniel Hagari said on Friday.

The Israeli-Lebanese border is experiencing its greatest tension since the war between Hezbollah and Israel in 2006following an upsurge in aggression by pro-Palestinian militias the day after the outbreak of war between the Islamist group Hamas and Israel in Gaza on October 7.

Hostilities have increased further after the bombing that killed Saleh Al Arouri in Beirut on Tuesday, deputy head of Hamas, in an action attributed to Israel, which neither recognized nor denied the operation. Since the beginning of hostilities in the area, at least 177 deaths have been recorded: 13 in Israel – 9 soldiers and 4 civilians – and 164 in Lebanon, including 127 members of Hezbollah, 16 members of Palestinian militias, one soldier and 20 civilians – among them three journalists and three children.

Israel has deployed more than 200,000 soldiers on its northern border, where violence has also displaced thousands of residents, with some 80,000 people evacuated from communities in northern Israel and more than 70,000 fleeing southern Lebanon.