Lebanon’s armed group Hezbollah launched a series of drone and rocket attacks into northern Israel on Tuesday but warned that its much-anticipated retaliation for Israel’s killing of a top commander last week was yet to come.
Hezbollah announced that it had launched a swarm of attack drones at two military sites near Acre in northern Israel and also targeted an Israeli military vehicle in another location.
The Israeli military reported that several hostile drones were detected crossing from Lebanon, with one being intercepted. Several civilians were injured to the south of the coastal city of Nahariya, and Reuters TV footage showed one impact site near a bus stop on a main road outside the city.
In a statement, the Israeli military mentioned that sirens sounded around Acre, but it turned out to be a false alarm. The air force struck two Hezbollah facilities in south Lebanon.
Fears are rising that the Middle East could be tipped into full-blown war following vows by Hezbollah to avenge the killing of Hezbollah commander Fuad Shukr and by Iran to respond to the assassination in Tehran last week of the head of the Palestinian militant group Hamas.
A Hezbollah source told Reuters that “the response to the assassination of commander Fuad Shukr has not yet come.”
Earlier on Tuesday, four people were killed in a strike on a home in the Lebanese town of Mayfadoun, nearly 30 km (19 miles) north of the border, according to medics and a security source.
