Hezbollah positions in Lebanon were hit by Israeli air strikes this morning, the Israeli team announced.
The attack, also expected by Hezbollah, was in retaliation for a rocket fired yesterday at a community camp in the Israeli-annexed Golan Heights, killing 12 children and young people aged between ten and twenty.
Hebolah, however, denied that the rocket was launched by its fighters, which Israeli authorities rejected, attributing responsibility to it.
Overnight, Israeli warplanes “attacked a number of terrorist targets” from Hezbollah positions both “deep in Lebanese territory” and “in southern Lebanon,” including “weapons caches and terrorist infrastructure in the areas of Shabriha, Burj al-Smali, Bekaa, Kfarkela, Rab El Talatin, Hiam and Tir Harfa,” the statement said.
Earlier, the United Nations Special Coordinator for Lebanon and the commander of the peacekeeping forces in that country addressed the early hours of the morning call on the parties to exercise “maximum restraint”.
For its part, Hezbollah has dismissed a “tough” operation by the Israeli military against its positions in Lebanon in retaliation for yesterday’s deadly attack on the Golan Heights.
“We have been on alert for months, alert for an enemy attack,” sources told the German news agency. “This is nothing new, we are on permanent alert,” they added.