ALBAWABA - Israel claimed 10 troops, including two officers, killed in battles along Lebanon's southern border in the previous 24 hours, escalating tensions.
Israel is conducting heavy airstrikes on Beirut's southern neighborhood and other parts of southern and eastern Lebanon. Hezbollah fired missiles toward northern Israel, including Haifa and the Upper Galilee.
The Israeli military said it attacked 200 Lebanon targets in the last day. Israeli ground soldiers allegedly destroyed 50 Hezbollah sites in southern Lebanon communities. Israel said it killed Hezbollah Radwan Force leader Abbas Adnan Muslim in Aitaroun, southern Lebanon. The Israelis said Muslim led operations against northern Israel.
After Israel's attacks, Hezbollah blasted Israeli towns and military sites. The Israeli military intercepted a Lebanon-fired missile early Friday in southern Haifa. Civilians in Hadera, Caesarea, and southern Haifa heard sirens warning of strikes.
Hezbollah's rocket fire resumed as the Israeli Home Front Command sounded warning sirens in Manara, Margaliot, and Misgav Am in Upper Galilee. Hezbollah claimed missile fire on Safed, Nahariya, Kiryat Shmona, Karmiel, Nesherim, Zvulun, and Sanat Jin Bin sites, according to Al Jazeera. Hezbollah also used attack drones to strike Ramot Naftali and fired two surface-to-air missiles, forcing an Israeli warplane and Hermes drone to leave Lebanese territory.
Israeli media reported 120 Lebanon-launched rockets into Israel on Thursday, one of the largest spikes in cross-border rocket fire since the conflict started.
Al Jazeera's reporter in southern Lebanon reported an Israeli attack on a Hasbaya apartment complex, killing three persons, including media crew members. Local civil defense troops are helping journalists injured by the complicated strike, and Al Jazeera verified that one of their teams was there.
In eastern Lebanon, an Israeli attack on Al-Khader in the Bekaa Valley killed six and injured 12, according to civil defense officials. An airstrike destroyed a residential building and surrounding stores. Ambulances and civil defense personnel are transporting patients and clearing rubble.
