Israeli army says it struck buildings used by Hezbollah in southern Lebanon

By Said Amouri

JERUSALEM (AA) - The Israeli army said Thursday that it targeted buildings used by Hezbollah in southern Lebanon.

The military released a statement saying that Israeli fighter jets attacked two buildings housing militants from the Lebanese group in the Houla and Maroun al-Ras areas.

The army also acted to remove “a threat” in several areas of southern Lebanon, the statement added.

It said several rockets had been launched from southern Lebanon towards the Zar'it area in northern Israel with no injuries reported.

Earlier in the day, an Anadolu correspondent reported that two people were injured in an Israeli airstrike on the town of Houla.

Meanwhile, Hezbollah said that one of its fighters was killed during clashes with the Israeli army, raising the group’s death toll to 321 since Oct. 8 last year.

The Israeli army also said it intercepted a suspicious aerial target that crossed from Lebanon using the Iron Dome system.

Tension has flared along the border between Lebanon and Israel amid intermittent exchanges of fire between Israeli forces and Hezbollah in the deadliest clashes since the two sides fought a full-scale war in 2006.

The cross-border escalation comes amid an Israeli military offensive in the Gaza Strip that has killed more than 36,240 people since an attack on Oct. 7 by the Palestinian resistance group Hamas.

*Writing by Mohammad Sio