The attack came after Hezbollah announced that Israeli forces had killed one fighter in southern Lebanon.
Lebanese group Hezbollah said it had launched a drone attack on an Israeli military base north of the city of Acre in retaliation for killing one of its fighters, marking the deepest assault on Israeli territory since the start of the Gaza war. became.
Hezbollah said in a statement on Tuesday that it had launched a “combined air attack using decoys and explosive drones” on two Israeli military bases between Acre and Nahariya.
The Iranian-backed group said it acted in retaliation for an earlier Israeli attack that left one fighter dead. It released what appeared to be a satellite image, with the location of the attack symbolized by a flash with a red circle around it.
The Israeli military said it was not aware of any Hezbollah attacks on its facilities, but earlier said it had intercepted two “airborne targets” off Israel's northern coast.
Lebanon's state news agency NNA said late Tuesday that an Israeli airstrike hit a residential area in the southern Lebanese town of Hanin, killing at least two people and injuring six others.
“Israeli warplanes attacked a two-story house with two air-to-ground missiles, completely destroying the building where the family lived, who had not left the town since the Israeli offensive began,” NNA said in a statement. did.
The Israeli military announced early Tuesday that two Hezbollah fighters were killed in an airstrike in southern Lebanon. Hezbollah later confirmed the death of one of its fighters, Hussein Azkour, but did not provide further details.
Another Israeli attack in the night killed Muhammad Atiyah, a fighter with Hezbollah's elite Radwan unit, the military said. There was no immediate comment from Hezbollah on the claim.
Since Hamas' unprecedented attack on October 7 sparked Israel's war on Gaza, there have been near-daily cross-border firefights between Hezbollah and Israeli forces.
The Israeli attack left about 270 Hezbollah fighters and 50 civilians dead.
Hezbollah rocket and drone fire killed about 12 Israeli soldiers and half of them civilians. The shelling displaced tens of thousands of people on both sides.
