The Israeli army decides to lift restrictions on large areas in the Galilee and the occupied Syrian Golan
Hezbollah announced on Friday that of his members from the town of Beit Lif in southern Lebanon, was killed, raising the death toll to 479 since the start of the confrontations with Israel on October 8, 2023.
Hezbollah said in a statement on Telegram, “With great pride and honor, the Islamic Resistance announces the martyrdom of the Mujahid Youssef Muhammad al Sayyid, born in 2003 from the town of Beit Lif in southern Lebanon, who was martyred on the road to Jerusalem”.
In the statement, Hezbollah announced that its fighters had targeted an Israeli soldiers’ position at the Matla site in the Upper Galilee with a guided missile and hit it directly, without giving further details.
Hezbollah said, “In support of our steadfast Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip and in support of their valiant and honorable resistance, the Islamic Resistance fighters targeted on Friday morning a positioning point for the Israeli enemy soldiers in the Matla site with a guided missile and hit it directly”.
In the same context, Israeli media reported that 50 homes in the Matula settlement were damaged on Thursday evening as a result of missile attacks from Lebanon, bringing the number of homes damaged since October 7 to 300, which is equivalent to half of its homes.
According to the Israel Hayom newspaper, Friday, damage estimates indicate that 50 homes in Metula (in the Upper Galilee, northern Israel) were damaged on Thursday evening.
Israel Hayom newspaper stated that 300 homes were damaged in the settlement of Metula since October 7 as a result of attacks from Lebanon, which is equivalent to half of its homes in Metula.
On Thursday, Hezbollah announced that it had launched 17 attacks on soldiers, military sites, vehicles, and settlements in northern Israel until 19:30 GMT on the same day.
This is the largest number of attacks launched by Hezbollah against Israel in 98 days, and the fourth largest daily rate of attacks since the exchange of fire between the two sides began about a year ago.
Meanwhile, the head of the Metula settlement council, David Azoulay, told the Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper that the rockets launched from southern Lebanon towards the settlement led to the outbreak of a number of fires and caused significant damage to homes there.
The Israeli army decided on Friday to lift the restrictions it had imposed last night on large areas in the Galilee and the occupied Syrian Golan Heights, against the backdrop of fears of escalation following its intensive attacks on southern Lebanon, after an assessment of the security situation, while Israeli reports indicated that Metula was targeted by a missile attack launched from Lebanese territory.
On Thursday evening, Israel claimed to have destroyed 100 Hezbollah missile platforms through a series of intensive airstrikes on several towns in southern Lebanon, amid a mutual escalation with Hezbollah following a series of large-scale bombings of communications devices in Lebanon on Tuesday and Wednesday, which left 37 dead and thousands wounded.
Israeli warplanes launched two large waves of raids on Thursday evening on areas in southern Lebanon.
The Lebanese News Agency said that the number of air raids launched by the Israeli Air Force on the south of the country since 9:00 pm (local time) on Thursday exceeded 52 raids targeting forested areas in the town of Mahmoudiya, the outskirts of the town of Aishiya, the heights of Rayhan, and the vicinity of the Barghaz River.
For its part, the Israeli army claimed, in a statement, that its fighters attacked, since Thursday afternoon, about 100 missile launch pads and additional military infrastructure belonging to Hezbollah, which included about 100 launch nozzles that were ready for immediate launch.
He added that this came under the direction of the Military Intelligence Division and the Northern Command, with the aim of reducing Hezbollah’s capabilities and destroying its infrastructure.
