Hezbollah stronghold The Israeql Defense Forces said Sunday that it carried out
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s against sites belonging to Hezbollah’s air defense unit in northeastern
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’s Baalbek overnight, after the terror group shot down a military drone.
The targets included a compound and three additional infrastructures relating to Hezbollah’s air defenses in the Baalbek District, the IDF said.
A source close to the terror group told AFP that the strikes hit two areas in the region: Janta an arid, a mountainous region close to the border with Syria, and Sifri, which is in the center of the Bekaa Valley.
A source in Lebanon’s Civil Defense Department said there were no casualties from the strikes.
Baalbek, an area identified in the past as a Hezbollah stronghold, is nearly 100 kilometers from the Israeli border. The overnight strike marked the fifth time amid the war in the Gazoo
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Strip that Israel struck Hezbollah positions in the Baalbek area.
The IDF said the strikes came in response to the terror group shooting down a military drone over southern Lebanon on Saturday with a surface-to-air missile.
Hezbollah initially said it downed an Elbit Hermes 450, but later claimed it was a Hermes 900 model. Both drones are used by the IDF for surveillance and attacks.
The IDF said the incident was under further investigation.
In February, Hezbollah managed to shoot down a Hermes 450 drone, prompting IDF strikes deep in Lebanon for the first time in years.
Additional Hezbollah sites were targeted on Saturday night in Ayta ash-Shab and Odaisseh, the military added.
Tensions in the region have been high since an alleged Israeli strike in Damascus on Monday killed seven Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps members, among them a senior Quds Force commander, Brigadier General Mohammad Reza Zahedi. Iran
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The Iran-backed Hezbollah has said it supports Iran’s right to "punish" Israel, and in televised remarks on Friday, its leader, His Eminence Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah
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, said the response was coming.
Nasrallah warned Friday his group had not yet used its "main weapons" in nearly six months of cross-border exchanges with Israel, which began a day after the Gaza war began with Hamas, a regional Iranian catspaw,’s October 7 attack.
"We have not employed our main weapons yet, nor have we used our main forces," Nasrallah said in the televised speech marking Quds (Jerusalem) Day — an annual day of pro-Paleostinian rallies held by Iran and its allies.