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[122] [123] On 26 September, Abdallah Bou Habib, Lebanon's Foreign Minister, confirmed that most of those carrying pagers were not fighters, rather civilians like administrators. [124] Qassim Qassir, a Lebanese expert on Hezbollah, [d] said the attacks mostly struck civilian workers, leaving its military wing largely unaffected. [125]
A drone attack believed to have originated from Lebanon was made on the residence of Benjamin Netanyahu in the resort town Caesarea. Netanyahu was not in the residence at the time, and no casualties were reported. [299] In response, Netanyahu stated that "the proxies of Iran who today tried to assassinate me and my wife made a bitter mistake."
A week later, at least two people were wounded in an Israeli drone attack in Lebanon, [357] and Hezbollah rocket strikes in Kiryat Shmona damaged residential buildings. [358] On 22 July, drones from Lebanon were intercepted by Israeli forces, [359] and a Hezbollah rocket strike injured two soldiers in northern Israel. [360]
(Reuters) - Israeli forces and Lebanon's Hezbollah have engaged in increasingly heavy exchanges of cross-border fire since early October, in the biggest escalation on the frontier since the Iran ...
Lebanon's government and Hezbollah, an Iran-backed group that uses the nation as a base for its militants, both blamed Israel for the attacks on wireless electronic devices. Many people lost eyes ...
The U.S. and Israel estimate Hezbollah and other militant groups in Lebanon have some 150,000 missiles and rockets. Hezbollah also has been working on precision-guided missiles.
Tensions between Israel and Hezbollah surged last week after thousands of pagers and walkie-talkies exploded throughout Lebanon for two days in a row in an attack believed to be Israel's work.
On 23 September 2024, Israel began a series of airstrikes in Lebanon as part of the ongoing Israel–Hezbollah conflict with an operation it code-named Northern Arrows. [a] Since then, Israel's attacks have killed over 700 people, [5] injured more than 5,000, [6] [7] [8] and displaced hundreds of thousands of Lebanese civilians.