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2020-08-26 Israel-Palestine-Jordan
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Israeli aircraft strike Hezbollah observation posts after shots fired at troops
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[IsraelTimes] IDF announcement of rare strikes on Lebanese terror group positions comes hours after it reported ’security incident’ along border, ordering residents to shelter in their homes.
Israeli aircraft bombed several Hezbollah observation posts along Israel’s northern border early Wednesday after shots were fired from Leb
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toward Israel Defense Force soldiers, the army said.
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The bombing appeared to be the first Israeli air strike on Hezbollah targets inside Lebanon since 2006, and could ratchet up tensions along the restive frontier.
The announcement from the IDF came several hours after it had reported a "security incident" along the Lebanese border on Tuesday night and ordered residents of surrounding area to shelter in their homes.
"Regarding the security incident that took place ast night at 10:40 p.m. in the area of [the Manara community], during operational activity, IDF troops were fired upon from Lebanese territory," the army said in a statement.
No injuries were reported to IDF soldiers, and there were no immediate reports of casualties in Lebanon. There was no immediate reaction from Hezbollah.
"In response to the gunfire, IDF attack helicopters and aircraft struck terror targets belonging to the Hezbollah terror group," the IDF said, adding that among the targets were Hezbollah observation posts along the border.
This appeared to be the first time that Israeli aircraft directly targeted Hezbollah sites inside Lebanon along the border since the 2006 Second Lebanon War, though the IDF has fired artillery and tank shells at the terror group’s positions in the interim 14 years in response to attacks on the border.
Following the IDF retaliation, all security restrictions were removed from the area, the military said.
The IDF said it saw the government of Lebanon as being "responsible for what is done in its territory."
"We see this as a very severe event. The IDF will continue to maintain a high level of alertness and ensure the illusory sovereignty of Israel and the security of residents as much as necessary," the military said.
Earlier, the IDF fired dozens of flares into the sky around the northern Galilee, as the military searched the area to ensure that no one had breached the border after troops heard gunshots fired at their outpost next to the community of Manara.
Lebanese media reported thon the lam amounts of Israeli aircraft were flying over the border area.
Residents of the communities of Manara, Yiftach, Margaliot, Misgav Am and Malkia were all ordered to stay inside and to be prepared to enter a bomb shelter or other protected area at a moment’s notice and to remain there for 10 minutes.
The military also set up roadblocks on a number of highways in the area.
"Please continue to receive updates on the instructions that are being released to the media and to listen to the orders of security forces and the IDF troops operating in the area," the military told residents.
Lebanese media reported that a number of flares fired by the Israeli military sparked small fires near the border. Several unwent kaboom! pyrotechnic shells also landed inside Lebanese communities along the border. No injuries were reported.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who was on vacation with his family in nearby Safed, and Defense Minister Benny Gantz received security briefings from the military about the incident, their offices said.
The incident came amid lingering tensions along the Lebanese border, after the Hezbollah terror group vowed to avenge one of its fighters who was killed outside Damascus in an Arclight airstrike
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on July 20 attributed to Israel.
After initially bracing for retaliation by Hezbollah with additional troops deployed along the border, the IDF began scaling down its reinforcements following the massive explosion at the Beirut Port earlier this month. The military believed that the terror group — a major powerbroker in Lebanese politics — would focus its intentions on Lebanon’s domestic issues rather than carry out its Dire Revenge on Israel, though Hezbollah maintained that its retaliation was still to come.
Tuesday night’s "security incident" also came exactly one year after the IDF killed two Hezbollah members in an airstrike on an Iran-controlled facility in Syria that the military said was used to launch attacks on Israel with explosives-laden drones.
In response to the deaths of the two Hezbollah operatives, the terror group conducted an anti-tank guided missile attack on Israeli military targets a week later. One missile narrowly missed an IDF armored ambulance with five soldiers inside. 
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