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, after the terror group targeted a sensitive air traffic control base in northern Israel and a winery in a border community, causing damage in the latter attack. The Israeli airstrike, near the northeastern town of Zboud, which is more than 110 kilometers from Israel’s border, marked the deepest strike in Lebanon amid the Israel-Hamas
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The IDF said the strike, in response to the Hezbollah attack on the Mount Meron air traffic control base earlier in the day, targeted "a military compound used by Hezbollah’s aerial unit" near Zboud in the Baalbek District. The compound included several buildings and a landing pad for drones, the IDF said.
The IDF also said it struck a building and other infrastructure used by Hezbollah in southern Lebanon’s Ayta ash-Shab and Kafr Kila, and an observation post in Maroun al-Ras.
According to the IDF, several projectiles, apparently anti-tank missiles, were fired from Lebanon at the Meron base earlier Tuesday. The strike caused no injuries and "no harm to the unit’s capabilities," the IDF said.
Hezbollah has attacked Mount Meron, which is located some eight kilometers (5 miles) from the Lebanon border, several times amid the ongoing war, launching large barrages of rockets at the mountain, as well as missiles at the military base that sits atop it.
Hezbollah also fired three anti-tank missiles at the northern community of Avivim, hitting a structure at a vineyard and causing a fire, according to the IDF and fire services. The terror group claimed to have targeted buildings used by Israeli forces.
There were no reports of injuries in the attack, but heavy damage was caused to the winery, local authorities said and footage showed. Sirens did not sound in the largely evacuated community.mThe owner of the winery told the Ynet news site that it was the fourth time his business had been hit by projectiles fired from Lebanon.
The IDF said it shelled the launch sites used in the two attacks with artillery.
After the IDF’s strikes in Baalbek, Hezbollah fired a barrage of around 50 rockets at northern Israel, claiming to target an army base in the Golan Heights. The IDF said the Iron Dome air defense system intercepted some of the rockets with the remaining striking open areas. There were no reports of injuries.
In response to the barrage, the IDF said it carried out another strike against Hezbollah in northeastern Lebanon’s Baalbek. The Israeli fighter jets targeted another "military compound used by Hezbollah’s aerial unit," which included a launchpad for drones and several buildings, according to the IDF.
In additional strikes Tuesday, the IDF said fighter jets struck a Hezbollah weapons depot in Hanine and another site in Beit Yahoun.
Overnight, the IDF said two rockets were fired from Lebanon toward the northern border communities of Shlomi and Betzet, where sirens sounded at 12:50 a.m. Footage showed damage to a home in Betzet as a result of one of the rockets. Another video showed damage to an agricultural area, with the Walla news site reporting that high-tension electricity cables were severed as a result of the attack.
Hezbollah claimed the attack.
The IDF said fighter jets carried out airstrikes on buildings used by Hezbollah in Tayr Harfa and Dhayra in southern Lebanon during the night, as well as attacking the source of the overnight rocket fire.