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Hezbollah attacked on May 16 a border site of the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) using a new type of armed suicide drones.
In a statement, the group said that the drone fired two S-5 rockets at a vehicle surrounded by troops in Metula then went on to impact another target within the site. Hebrew media reported that three troops were wounded, with one of them in a life-threatening condition.
Hezbollah didn’t share any details on the new drone, but the S-5 unguided air-to-ground rockets used in the attack are known to have been developed in the Soviet Union. Rockets of this type have a range of three to four kilometers and are armed with a warhead weighing a little less or more than one kilogram, depending on the version.
The attack on Metula was not the first by Hezbollah during the day. In the early morning, the group said in a statement that it had launched more than 60 “Katyusha” rockets at the headquarters of the 210th Golan Division in the settlement of Nafah, the air defense barracks in the settlement of Kiela and the Northern Regions’ artillery barracks in the settlement of Yoav in the occupied Syrian Golan Heights.
The IDF confirmed that at least 40 rockets were launched from Lebanon in two barrages at the Golan Heights, but didn’t report any losses.
In addition, Hezbollah said in four separate statements that its fighters destroyed surveillance equipment of the IDF in the border sites of Jal al-Alam, Ramia and Adathir as well as in the Zarait barracks.
The attacks were carried out in support of the Palestinian people and resistance in the Gaza Strip as well as in response to recent Israeli strikes on the northeastern Lebanese district of Balbaak, Hezbollah noted in its statements.
In response to these attacks, the IDF launched another wave of strikes against targets of Hezbollah in southern Lebanon.
Fighter jets struck a Hezbollah rocket launching position, the IDF said in a statement, addin that a building where Hezbollah fighters were gathered in the town of Ayta al-Shaab and another building in the town of Halta were also struck.
Moreover, Lebanese media reported the death of two people in an Israeli drone strike that targeted a vehicle on a road between the towns of Seddiqine and Rmadiyeh.
Since the outbreak of the Israeli war on Gaza last October, Hezbollah and its allies began launching near-daily attacks against the IDF in support of Hamas and other Palestinian armed factions in the Strip.
So far, the border clashes have resulted in ten civilian deaths on the Israeli side, as well as the deaths of at least 14 IDF soldiers and reservists. On the Lebanese side, more than 400 people have been killed, including 281 fighters of Hezbollah and at least 70 civilians.
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belarus showed up an opportunity to demonstrate “western democracy and humanism” back in 2021 at polish border, ‘wondering if nasrallah could do same
the purpose of the war hezbollah is engaged in must be to win and evict the illegal occupiers of palestine. that is a presumption readers of southfront is not allowed to put in words so question is what is it southfront is afraid of, its israeli parents or what. southfront ought to allow readers to express their thoughts if the comment(s) is rational and logical!
idf tank wiped out 5 of their own. 8 months in and the jews are wiping themselves out. now that is what i call progress
yes, and hamas blew up 500 gazans at their own hospital