Two IDF soldiers injured as Israel and Hezbollah exchange strikes over the weekend

Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency said Syrian nationals, including children, had been injured in the strike on a vehicle.

A destroyed vehicle sits amid debris in the aftermath of an Israeli airstrike, July 19, 2024 (Credit: MAHMOUD ZAYYAT/AFP via Getty Images)AFP via Getty Images

Hamas’s Lebanese branch took credit for the other 10 rockets, fired at Western Galilee close to 4pm. No injuries were reported but the rockets sparked several blazes which had to be controlled. Hamas said in a statement that it had fired at an Israeli military position in the Upper Galilee “in response to the Zionist massacres against civilians in the Gaza Strip.”

The IDF said its fighter jets struck several locations and buildings used by Hezbollah in the southern Lebanon town of Houla on Saturday morning. Rocket launcher sites were also targeted in Lebanon’s Deir Seryan and Aitaroun regions.

Since October 8, one day after the Hamas massacre against Israel, Hezbollah-led forces have repeatedly attacked Israeli communities and military posts in the country’s north, allegedly in support of the Palestinians in Gaza.

The skirmishes with Hezbollah have resulted in 12 civilian deaths on the Israeli side and 18 IDF soldiers and reservists being killed. Hezbollah has named 370 members to have died fighting Israel since then, mostly in Lebanon but also in Syria.