AMMAN (Reuters) -Lebanon’s Hezbollah group said it carried out a drone attack on Monday against an Israeli air defence outpost across the border in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights.
It said the rare attack, in which it deployed four drones, hit their target with “accuracy” in what it said was another operation in support of Palestinian militant groups in Gaza.
Israel captured the Golan Heights from Syria in 1967.
The Iran-aligned Hezbollah and the Israeli military have been exchanging fire along Lebanon’s southern border since October, when Hezbollah fired rockets at Israel in support of its Palestinian ally Hamas, which is at war with Israel in the Gaza Strip.
Israeli strikes had been mostly limited to the southern border region of Lebanon, although they have edged further north
in recent weeks.
Hezbollah last month said it fired rockets against the same target in the Golan Heights.
The armed group has used surface-to-air missiles on several occasions since Oct. 7 to target Israeli aircraft. It has also launched its own surveillance drones into northern Israel.
The Israeli military said two hostile aerial targets crossed from Lebanon into Israeli territory in the northern Golan area “fell in open areas”.
It also said Israeli warplanes struck a Hezbollah military site in the border area of Jibbain and overnight hit another Hezbollah outpost in the Taybeh area.
Three fighters of the Lebanese Islamist militant group Jamaa Islamiya, an ally of Hezbollah, who were killed in an Israeli strike in southern Lebanon on Sunday, were buried on Monday, the group said.
More than 60 civilians have been killed in Israeli shelling on Lebanon, along with more than 200 Hezbollah fighters, according to medical and security sources.
(Reporting by Suleiman Al-Khalidi; Additional reporting by Maayan Lubell in Jerusalem(Reuters Editing by Alex Richardson, Ros Russell and Angus MacSwan)
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