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Times Of Israel
Times Of Israel
26 Mar 2024


NextImg:Hezbollah fires missiles at Mount Meron air traffic control base, winery in Avivim

The Hezbollah terror group on Tuesday targeted a sensitive air traffic control base in northern Israel and a winery in a border community, causing damage in the latter strike, the military said.

According to the Israel Defense Forces, several projectiles, apparently anti-tank missiles, were fired from Lebanon at the Mount Meron air traffic control base.

The strike caused no injuries and “no harm to the unit’s capabilities,” the IDF said.

Hezbollah has attacked Mount Meron, which is located some eight kilometers (5 miles) from the Lebanon border, several times amid the ongoing war, launching large barrages of rockets at the mountain, as well as missiles at the military base that sits atop it.

Hezbollah also fired three anti-tank missiles from at the northern community of Avivim, hitting a structure at a vineyard and causing a fire, according to the IDF and fire services.

The terror group claimed to have targeted buildings used by Israeli forces.

There were no reports of injuries in the attack, but heavy damage was caused to the winery, local authorities said and footage showed. Sirens did not sound in the largely evacuated community.

The owner of the winery told the Ynet news site that it was the fourth time his business had been hit by projectiles fired from Lebanon.

The IDF said it shelled the launch sites used in the two attacks with artillery.

Overnight, the IDF said two rockets were fired from Lebanon toward the northern border communities of Shlomi and Betzet, where sirens sounded at 12:50 a.m.

Footage showed damage to a home in Betzet as a result of one of the rockets. Another video showed damage to an agricultural area, with the Walla news site reporting that high-tension electricity cables were severed as a result of the attack.

Hezbollah claimed the attack.

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The IDF said fighter jets carried out airstrikes on buildings used by Hezbollah in Tayr Harfa and Dhayra in southern Lebanon during the night, as well as attacking the source of the overnight rocket fire.

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Since October 8, Hezbollah-led forces have attacked Israeli communities and military posts along the border on a near-daily basis with rockets, drones, anti-tank missiles, and other means, with the group saying it is doing so to support Gaza amid the war there. Hezbollah is an Iranian proxy in Lebanon and Palestinian terror groups Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad are backed by Iran.

The IDF has regularly responded with strikes in Lebanon, while warning it will no longer tolerate Hezbollah’s presence on the frontier and warning of war in the north should ongoing international efforts fail to remove the terror group’s forces from the border area.

The war in Gaza erupted after Hamas’s October 7 massacre, which saw some 3,000 terrorists burst across the border into Israel by land, air and sea, killing some 1,200 people and seizing 253 hostages, mostly civilians.

Vowing to destroy Hamas, Israel launched a wide-scale military campaign in Gaza. Hamas’s Iran-backed ally Hezbollah responded with strikes and attacks on the northern front.

Smoke billows from the area of an Israeli air strike on the southern Lebanese village of Khiam near the border with Israel on March 23, 2024. (Rabih Daher/AFP)

So far, the skirmishes on the northern border have resulted in seven civilian deaths on the Israeli side, as well as the deaths of 10 IDF soldiers and reservists. There have also been several attacks from Syria, without any injuries.

Hezbollah has named 248 members who have been killed by Israel during the ongoing skirmishes, mostly in Lebanon, but some also in Syria. In Lebanon, another 42 operatives from other terror groups, a Lebanese soldier, and at least 50 civilians, three of whom were journalists, have been killed.

Amid the constant attacks from Lebanon, Israeli officials maintain the country will no longer accept Hezbollah’s presence along the border, which is in contravention of the UN resolution that ended the 2006 Second Lebanon War. They say from those positions, the terrorists could launch an attack similar to Hamas’s October 7 attacks in southern Israel.

Jerusalem also says the situation whereby tens of thousands of northern residents have been driven from their homes for months by Hezbollah’s attacks is intolerable and unsustainable.

Defense Minister Yoav Gallant warned in February that a possible truce in Gaza would not affect Israel’s “objective” of pushing Hezbollah back from its northern border, by force or diplomacy.