18 Israelis Injured As Hezbollah Attacks Israel

By Stefan J. Bos, Chief International Correspondent Worthy News

BEIRUT/JERUSALEM (Worthy News) – At least 18 Israelis were injured, one critically, after the Iranian-backed Hezbollah militia fired anti-tank missiles from southern Lebanon in a further sign that Israel was dealing with another front and potentially a broader international conflict, officials said Monday.

Several vehicles near Israel’s northern community of Dovev were hit in the missile strike, whose victims included Israel Electric Corporation employees, according to witnesses.

They reportedly arrived to repair power lines damaged by previous fire from Lebanon, where Hezbollah has said it is using more powerful weapons than previously against Israel.

Hezbollah sources had claimed they were soldiers, an assertion denied by the Israel Defence Forces (IDF). The Magen David Adom emergency service said one of the civilians injured in the attack was in a critical condition.

In response, Israel said it had struck several southern Lebanese towns since Sunday, including Yaroun, Mays el-Jabal, and Alma al-Shaab. However, fighting between the two parties continued, and Worthy News was monitored.

Hezbollah said despite the Israeli counterattacks, it managed to launch guided missiles against a “logistical force belonging to the occupation army that was about to install transmission poles and eavesdropping and spying devices near the Dove barracks.”

It claimed it hit an Israeli military bulldozer in a separate strike. Shortly after the attack, air raid sirens were heard in northern Israel, according to witnesses. Israel’s Army Radio reported that another antitank missile had been fired from Lebanon.

MORE ATTACKS

Hezbollah later announced attacks on Israeli military gatherings and barracks in border areas Birket Riche and Zareit as clashes continued to intensify along the tense Lebanon-Israel border.

The assaults were seen as the most severe incidents involving civilians since an Israeli airstrike in south Lebanon on November 5 killed a woman and three children.

Israeli troops and Hezbollah militants and their allies have been clashing along the border since the Israel-Hamas war started five weeks ago with a bloody incursion into southern Israel by Hezbollah ally Hamas.

Also Sunday, the United Nations peacekeeping force in south Lebanon, UNIFIL, said one of its peacekeepers had been wounded by gunfire overnight near the Lebanese town of al-Qawza.

It was not immediately apparent where the shooting had come from or whether the peacekeepers were targeted or caught in crossfire. UNIFIL said it was investigating.

Clashes have increased in intensity as Israel conducts a ground offensive in Gaza against Hamas after it killed 1,200 people, including women and children, in Israel in November 7.

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