Hezbollah claims to have partially destroyed Israeli military base in Upper Galilee region

By Anadolu staff

ANKARA (AA) – Hezbollah said on Friday that it fired a heavy barrage of missiles at an Israeli military base in the Upper Galilee region near the southern Lebanese border, causing fire and destroying some of it.

Hezbollah launched a heavy missile barrage on the Israeli military base in Ruwaisat Al-Alam, located in the occupied Kfar Shuba region of Upper Galilee, the Lebanon-based group said in separate statements.

The base was hit, catching fire and destroying some of its areas.

The group also launched an attack on the northern Israeli settlement of Mitzpe Abirim "for the first time with Katyusha misfiles."

Hezbollah said the attack was in response to the Israeli attacks on civilians in southern Lebanon's towns of Safad al-Batikh, Majdal Salam, and Shaqra.

The Israeli army made no immediate comment on the Hezbollah statements until 0920GMT.

Meanwhile, the Lebanese National News Agency reported that two shells fired by the Israeli army fell near a police station at the Marj Junction in the town of Hula, southern Lebanon.

Fears have grown about a full-blown war between Israel and the Lebanese resistance group amid an exchange of cross-border attacks between the two sides.

The escalation comes against the backdrop of a deadly Israeli onslaught on Gaza, which has killed more than 38,800 victims since October, following an attack by the Palestinian resistance group, Hamas.

* Writing by Ikram Kouachi