By Anadolu staff
BEIRUT (AA) - Hezbollah announced Thursday it forced Israeli fighter jets to leave Lebanese airspace after its missile defenses confronted the aircraft.
The Lebanese group said its fighters “launched anti-aircraft missiles at the enemy's warplanes, which were attacking our sky and breaking the sound barrier in an attempt to scare the children.”
It added on Telegram that the interception of the Israeli warplanes by its missile defenses “forced them to retreat beyond the Lebanese borders.”
Hezbollah announced earlier that it had launched four attacks on Israeli army positions and gatherings of soldiers near the southern border of Lebanon.
It said the attacks included “targeting surveillance equipment at the military sites of al-Raheb and Metula with appropriate weapons and the headquarters of the 91st Brigade in the Branit barracks and the positions of soldiers around it with Falaq-1 rockets, and the Ramtha military site with rocket-propelled weapons.”
It said in a series of statements in Telegram that the attacks hit their targets “directly.”
The Israeli Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper reported that “a fire broke out in Metula due to an anti-tank missile fired from southern Lebanon.”
The newspaper claimed that "there were no casualties" as a result of the missile.
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 border tension comes amid an Israeli military onslaught in the Gaza Strip that has killed nearly 36,600 people since a major attack by the Palestinian resistance group, Hamas, on Oct. 7.
*Writing by Rania Abu Shamala in Istanbul