Two Lebanese army soldiers were killed and three were injured on Friday in an Israeli airstrike next to an army checkpoint in the town of Kfar Yatar in south Lebanon, an army statement said.
The attack blocked the road and ambulance teams encountered difficulties in evacuating the wounded.
Israeli fighter jets carried out relentless raids targeting several south Lebanese villages, including the town of Naqoura, where the headquarters of the UN peacekeeping force, UNIFIL, is located.
Also on Friday, two UN peacekeepers were wounded in two explosions near their observation tower, the second such incident in 24 hours, perpetrated by the Israeli army.
Moreover, Israeli artillery shelling on the village of Jibshit killed four persons in a building which was completely destroyed.
Warplanes also struck villages in the districts of Tyre and Nabatieh, where casualties were reported.
An Israeli drone attacked the Civil Defense Center in the town of Tayr Dibba, without causing casualties.
In Beirut, a cautious calmed prevailed after the Israeli airstrike that targeted Al-Nuwairi, Ras al-Nabaa and al-Basta neighborhoods in the heart of Beirut on Thursday. Israeli spy drones flew intensely and at a low altitude all day over the Lebanese capital.
While rubble removal operations continued in search of survivors, the Health Ministry said the death toll of yesterday’s attack is 22 and more than 117 wounded.
In the Beqaa region in east Lebanon, Israeli warplanes launched two airstrikes on the town of Karak and one on the town of Budai, west of Baalbeck, resulting in a preliminary death toll of five people. Two people were also wounded and one is missing.
A raid was also reported on Hosh al-Sayyed on the border between Lebanon and Syria, as well as other villages in the area.
For their part, Hezbollah announced “targeting a gathering of Israeli soldiers in and around the Yiftah barracks with a large rocket barrage.”
The pro-Iranian group also claimed responsibility for bombing “technical equipment placed on a crane at the Abad site with a guided missile, scoring direct hits.”
Additionally, Hezbollah declared “targeting gatherings of Israeli soldiers in the Kfarsold settlement with a large rocket salvo,” and “launching an aerial attack with a squadron of drones on the air defense command base in Kiryat Eliezer in Haifa.”
Israeli media reported that a building in the industrial zone in Kiryat Bialik in Haifa Bay was directly hit by rockets fired from Lebanon.
Two people were injured by an anti-tank missile in the town of Yaroun in the Upper Galilee, while rockets fired from Lebanon fell in the Krayot area in Haifa Bay, according to Israeli media.
They also reported that “about 30 rockets were fired from southern Lebanon towards the Galilee since Friday morning.”
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