Lebanon's Hezbollah targets Israel base, wounding 14 soldiers
Lebanon's Hezbollah group said it attacked an Israeli army base near the border on Wednesday, with the latest in a series of tit-for-tat strikes wounding 14 soldiers, according to Israel's military.
Israel and Hezbollah, an Iran-backed Hamas ally, have been exchanging near-daily cross-border fire since the Palestinian militant group attacked southern Israel on October 7, triggering war in the Gaza Strip.
But Wednesday's incident marked the third day in a row that Hezbollah strikes wounded people in Israel, with regional tensions high after Iran launched a direct attack on Israel over the weekend in retaliation for a deadly strike on Tehran's Damascus consulate.
Hezbollah said it launched «a combined attack with guided missiles and explosive drones on a new military reconnaissance command centre in Arab al-Aramshe,» an Arab-majority village of northern Israel near the Lebanese border.
According to the Israeli army, 14 soldiers were wounded, including six seriously.
It earlier said that «a number of launches from Lebanon were identified crossing into the area of Arab al-Aramshe,» and that Israeli forces struck the sources of the fire.
Hezbollah said the attack came «in response to the enemy assassinating a number of resistance fighters in Ain Baal and Shehabiya» on Tuesday.
On Tuesday, Israel said its strikes in south Lebanon killed two local Hezbollah commanders and another operative, with the Iran-backed group saying three of its members were killed as it launched rockets in retaliation.
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