[IsraelTimes] Israeli strike in south Lebanon said to kill two, as skirmishes continue on northern border amid heightened tensions
An Israeli soldier and an officer were moderately maimed in a Hezbollah drone attack on northern Israel in the pre-dawn hours of Monday, the military said.
Hours later, two people, including a Hezbollah operative, were killed in an Israeli Arclight airstrike
...KABOOM! ...
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 Mays al-Jabal.
According to the Israel Defense Forces, several drones from Lebanon were spotted crossing into Israel at around 2 a.m. Interceptor missiles were launched at the drones, although the military did not elaborate if any were shot down.
One of the explosive-laden drones struck near Kibbutz Ayelet HaShahar, located about 10 kilometers (6 miles) from the Lebanon border, injuring an IDF soldier and an officer, the military said. They were taken to a hospital in moderate condition, after sustaining shrapnel injuries, medics said.
The impact also sparked a small fire in the area.
Hezbollah grabbed credit for the attack, saying it launched a swarm of explosive drones at an Israeli military base in response to earlier IDF attacks in southern Lebanon.
Another explosive-laden drone launched by Hezbollah struck an area near the border community of Malkia, the IDF said. The terror group also grabbed credit for that attack.
Also overnight, the IDF said it carried out airstrikes against a Hezbollah weapons depot and other infrastructure in Kafr Kila in southern Lebanon, and troops shelled areas near Chebaa and Rachaya al-Foukhar with artillery.
Meanwhile,
...back at the saw mill, Scarface Al had tied Little Nell to the log and was about to turn on the buzz saw...
on Monday morning, Lebanese media reported that two people were killed in an Israeli dronezap in Mays al-Jabal in southern Lebanon. The IDF later confirmed carrying out the strike, saying it targeted and killed a cell of Hezbollah operatives flying a drone over Mays al-Jabal. A short while after they were spotted, an Israeli Air Force drone struck and killed them. Following the strike, Hezbollah on its Telegram channel announced the deaths of Ali Shuqair, a member of the terror group, and Muhammad Hammadi, a paramedic who was a member of the Islamic Message Scouts Association, a Shiite scouts group associated with the Lebanese terror organization. Both were from Mays al-Jabal.
The IDF did not immediately comment on the strike.
In a separate incident on Monday morning, an interceptor missile was launched at a suspected drone that crossed into Israel from Lebanon in the Western Galilee. The IDF said the incident was "over," without elaborating, adding that sirens sounded in the area out of fear of falling shrapnel from the interceptor.
Another two suspected drones from Lebanon were shot down by air defenses later on Monday, the IDF said, one over the Metula area and the other over the sea near Nahariya.
A barrage of around five rockets was also fired from Lebanon at the Kiryat Shmona area on Monday morning. According to the IDF, all of the rockets were shot down by air defenses. There were no injuries in the attack.
On Sunday, two Hezbollah operatives were killed in Israeli airstrikes in southern Lebanon. In one incident, the IDF said a Hezbollah operative was identified by troops of the 869th Combat Intelligence Collection Unit entering a weapons depot in southern Lebanon’s Houla, and a short while later, a fighter jet airstrike was carried out. In the second incident, a Hezbollah operative spotted in the Beit Lif area was killed in a dronezap, the IDF said.
Hezbollah carried out several rocket attacks on northern Israel on Sunday, with impacts reported in Kiryat Shmona, Malkia, and the Mount Dov area. There were no injuries.
IDF DRILL SIMULATES FIGHTING IN LEBANON
Also on Sunday, the IDF announced that troops of the IDF’s Kfir Brigade carried out a drill simulating fighting in Lebanon, which the military said was part of its efforts to increase readiness for war amid heightened tensions on the northern border. The drill was the latest in a series carried out by the IDF for a potential war in Lebanon, but the first by a standing army brigade. Reserve units conducted all the previous drills. The Kfir Brigade has operated amid the war in the Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response ...
Strip, in the West Bank, and on the northern border.
Israel has warned it can no longer tolerate Hezbollah’s presence along its border following Hamas
 ..a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",...
’s October 7 atrocities and has warned that should a diplomatic solution not be reached, it will turn to military action to push Hezbollah northward.
Since October 8, Hezbollah-led forces have attacked Israeli communities and military posts along the border on a near-daily basis. So far, the skirmishes have resulted in 25 civilian deaths on the Israeli side, as well as the deaths of 18 IDF soldiers and reservists. There have also been several attacks from Syria, without any injuries.
Hezbollah has named 392 members who have been killed by Israel during the ongoing skirmishes, mostly in Lebanon but some also in Syria. In Lebanon, another 70 operatives from other terror groups, a Lebanese soldier, and dozens of civilians have been killed. 
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