A senior official in the terrorist organization Hezbollah was killed in a retaliatory strike by the IAF, Arab media sources reported on Friday. The strike came after the Lebanon-based terror group claimed to use a new missile-launching drone to attack Israel Thursday night.
According to Hezbollah, during the attack, the UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle) flew towards an IDF base near Metulla and targeted IDF soldiers.
Hezbollah published a video it said showed the attack, wherein a UAV launched two S5 missiles.
Hezbollah stated that the drone had been launched in a suicide attack and, after firing off the missiles, immediately exploded.
Israel responds by striking deep into Lebanon
The IAF launched airstrikes on the village of A-Najaria near Sidon, Lebanon. The target was reportedly only tens of kilometers away from the Israel-Lebanon border.
Hezbollah, citing a medical source, stated that one had been killed and two others were wounded. Arab media sources reported that the individual killed was a senior Hezbollah official.
The Egyptian news website Sada El-Balad, citing local reports, stated that the eliminated Hezbollah official was Hussein Khader Mahdi. Mahdi was reportedly in a vehicle at the time of the strike.
Earlier Hezbollah attacks on Israel
In one of Hezbollah's attacks on the North on Friday, one soldier was seriously wounded, and two others were lightly wounded, the military confirmed.
The IDF later confirmed that a base near the Golani junction in the Lower Galilee was hit after 50 of 60 launched missiles crossed into Israeli territory. The majority of other missiles landed in open areas.