[IsraelTimes] Building reported damaged, none injured, as anti-tank missiles fired at Metula and other communities; Lebanese reports: ‘Unprecedented’ Hezbollah deployment on streets of Beirut
Israel Defense Force jets struck a Hezbollah cell in southern Leb
...an Iranian satrapy currently ruled by Hassan Nasrallah situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozen flavors of Christians, plus Armenians, Georgians, and who knows what else? It is the home of the original Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers...
’s Tayr Harfa on Thursday afternoon, the military said, after multiple projectiles, including anti-tank missiles, were fired at northern Israel’s Metula from Lebanon.
Additionally, three Hezbollah sites in Yaroun, Yarine and Ayta ash-Shab and three buildings in Mays al-Jabal and Houla were targeted, according to an IDF statement.
There were no reports of injuries in the attacks from Lebanon, but damage to a building was reported in Metula. Rocket warning sirens sounded throughout Thursday afternoon and evening in largely evacuated northern towns and cities including Kiryat Shmona, Ramot Naftali, Shlomi, Tel Hai, Beit Hillel, Kfar Yuval and Avivim, which also hosts a military base.
The IDF said fighter jets also struck a building used by Hezbollah in southern Lebanon’s Kafr Kila on Thursday, after striking another building in Dhayra overnight Wednesday.
The IDF added that it shelled the launch sites of rockets fired from Lebanon overnight toward the Upper Galilee’s Kibbutz Yiftah.
On Thursday morning, Lebanon’s An-Nahar newspaper reported a "large and unprecedented" deployment of armed Hezbollah members on the streets in the southern Beirut suburb of Dahiya, a stronghold of the terror group. The report said the terror group members were masked and checking the identities of individuals walking on the streets. In addition to being dominated by Hezbollah, the neighborhood was home to Hamas
 ...a regional Iranian catspaw,...
deputy leader Saleh al-Arouri, killed in a January strike widely attributed to Israel.
Judicial officials in Lebanon said on Thursday an investigative judge had issued arrest warrants for two people on suspicion of giving information to Israel, including the digital mapping of a Beirut street where Arouri was killed.
The officials said that Fadi Sawwan, the investigative judge at the military tribunal, issued the arrest warrants earlier this week for the two Lebanese citizens weeks after they were detained while using sophisticated digital mapping equipment.
Speaking on condition of anonymity in line with regulations, the officials said the two men had earlier mapped streets in different parts of Lebanon, including in Beirut’s southern suburbs that are home to the Hezbollah leadership. The men reportedly said they thought they were sending the information to a US-based virtual tourism company.
The officials said that the two suspects had mapped the street on which Arouri was killed nearly two weeks before the hit.
The two were said to be in jug, charged with spying for a foreign country and obtaining information that should remain secret because of national security, and facing life sentences. 
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