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Hizbollah says launched 'squadrons of drones' at Israel after Sidon attack
By AFP - Aug 10,2024 - Last updated at Aug 10,2024
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Firefighter arrive as a car burns following an Israeli strike in the southern Lebanese city of Sidon on August 9, 2024. A Lebanese security source said the Israeli strike on a vehicle in the southern city of Sidon killed a Hamas security official from the nearby Ain Al Helweh Palestinian refugee camp (AFP photo)
BEIRUT, Lebanon — Lebanon's Iran-back Hizbollah group said it launched on Saturday explosive-laden drones at a north Israel army base following the killing of a Hamas commander in south Lebanon a day earlier.
Hizbollah fighters launched "squadrons of explosive-laden drones" at the Michve Alon base near the Galilee town of Safed "in response to the attack and assassination carried out by the Israeli enemy in the city of Sidon" on Friday, the group said in a statement.
Hizbollah's media office said it was "the first time" the group had targeted that base.
On Friday, an Israeli strike on a vehicle in the south Lebanon city of Sidon killed a Hamas commander, the Palestinian militant group and the Israeli military said.
Hamas said in a statement that Samer al-Hajj was killed "in a Zionist strike in the city of Sidon".
The Israeli military said that its aircraft struck the Sidon area and "eliminated" Hajj, whom it identified as "a senior commander" for Hamas in Lebanon.
It was the first strike of its kind in Sidon since Hamas launched its October 7 attack on Israel, triggering war in Gaza and prompting its Lebanese ally Hizbollah to begin trading near-daily cross-border fire with the Israeli army in a bid to tie down its troops.
Ten months of cross-border violence has killed some 562 people in Lebanon, most of them fighters but also including at least 116 civilians, according to the AFP tally.
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