An Israel Defense Forces officer and a soldier were moderately wounded when a Hezbollah drone launched from Lebanon scored a direct hit near Ayelet HaShahar in the Hula Valley overnight on Sunday.
They were evacuated to hospital and their families were informed.
Iran’s Lebanese terror proxy said it had launched “a swarm of drones” at the kibbutz, according to the Beirut-based Al Mayadeen TV news network, which is aligned with Hezbollah.
The attack triggered air-raid sirens in the area, and the Upper Galilee Regional Council reported several interceptions. Fires broke out in several open areas due to impacts.
Alarms were also heard in the Western Galilee in several towns near Nahariya on Monday morning, with the IDF saying that a suspicious aerial target was intercepted. Sirens were sounded due to concerns of falling shrapnel, according to the military.
At the same time farther east, the IDF intercepted another suspicious aerial target that crossed from Lebanon into the area of Metula, with sirens also sounding there due to the danger of shrapnel.
Additionally, an armed drone from Lebanon hit the area near Kibbutz Malkia, the IDF said. No injuries were reported.
Sirens continued to sound in communities in northern Israel throughout the morning and early afternoon, with no casualties reported.
The IDF said that it intercepted all of the rockets fired at Kiryat Shmona in the morning, with no injuries from the attack.
Earlier on Monday morning, IDF soldiers spotted a terrorist cell operating a drone in the area of Meiss El Jabal in Southern Lebanon. Shortly after the detection, the IAF killed the terrorists.
After the strike on the terror cell, Hezbollah confirmed the deaths of Ali Shuqair, a member of the terror group, and Muhammad Hammadi, a member of the Islamic Message Scouts Association, a Shi’ite scouts group associated with Hezbollah. They were both from Meiss El Jabal.
Overnight on Sunday, the Israeli Air Force struck a weapons storage facility and Hezbollah terrorist infrastructure sites in the area of Kfarkela (Kafr Kila) in Southern Lebanon, the military said.
Furthermore, IDF artillery fired towards the areas of Chebaa and Rachaya Al Foukhar in Southern Lebanon.
Hezbollah announced late Sunday night that two of its members had been killed by Israeli strikes, naming them as Muhammad Hassan Farhat and Ali Mustafa Amro.
Hezbollah has attacked northern Israel nearly every day since joining the war in support of Gaza-based Hamas on Oct. 8, killing more than 20 people and causing widespread damage. Tens of thousands of Israeli civilians remain internally displaced due to the ongoing violence.
The terror group has vowed revenge for last week’s targeted killing by Israel of senior Hezbollah commander Fuad Shukr in Beirut.
Shukr was responsible for a rocket attack that killed 12 children in Majdal Shams, a Druze village in the Golan Heights, on July 27, as well as the 1983 bombing that killed more than 300 U.S. and French troops in Beirut.
Israel is preparing the home front for an intensification of cross-border attacks by Hezbollah in response to Shukr’s killing, and also for Iran’s retaliation for the assassination of Hamas terror leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran last week, which Jerusalem has not taken responsibility for.
