Israeli drones meanwhile raided the southern towns of Rab Tlatine and Dhaira.
Hezbollah fired overnight anti-aircraft missiles on Israeli warplanes in south 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..., forcing them to retreat beyond the border and launched rockets at northern Israel Thursday in response to a deadly Israeli strike in south Lebanon.
Thursday's attack was the first since Israel killed top commander Fouad Shukur on Tuesday evening.
The commander's killing has triggered fears of a cycle of escalation that could spark a regional war that has been narrowly avoided over the past 10 months.
The violence since October has killed at least 542 people on the Lebanese side, most of them fighters but also including 114 civilians.
At least 22 soldiers and 25 civilians have been killed on the Israeli side, including in the annexed Golan Heights.