Violence escalates between Israel and Lebanon’s Hezbollah amid Gaza assault
Al JazeeraHezbollah launches explosive drones and missiles at Israeli positions as Israeli air strikes hit several towns and villages in south Lebanon. Violence has escalated at Lebanon’s border with Israel as Hezbollah launched explosive drones and missiles at Israeli positions, and Israeli air strikes rocked several towns and villages in south Lebanon. Senior Hezbollah politician, Hassan Fadlallah, in a statement to Reuters, said Israeli air strikes were a “new escalation” to which the group was responding with new types of attacks, be it “in the nature of the weapons or the targeted sites”. Israeli air strikes were also reported on the outskirts of the Lebanese village of Yaroun, not far from the location of another of the Israeli positions Hezbollah said it had targeted on Sunday.