JERUSALEM/BEIRUT, May 7 (Xinhua) -- Militants in Lebanon launched six unmanned aerial vehicles at northern Israel on Tuesday, causing fire and damage.
Only one of the drones was intercepted by the country's Aerial Defense Array, the Israeli military said in a statement.
One of the drones exploded near the community of Yiftah, close to the Israel-Lebanon border, sparking a fire, it said, adding that several other drones caused light damage.
No causalities were immediately reported.
Israel's state-owned Kan TV news reported that the drones were launched by Hezbollah, a Lebanese armed group and party, which has been fighting against Israel along the border since Oct. 7.
Lebanese military sources, who spoke anonymously, told Xinhua that Israel's F-15 warplanes intercepted, at very low altitudes, several drones that were heading from Lebanon to northern Israel.
Hezbollah said Tuesday that its military wing, the Islamic Resistance, targeted Israeli officers and soldiers in the Yiftah barracks with drones while reporting casualties. It said drones targeted an Iron Dome platform in the Ramot Naftali Barracks, damaging it.
The drones came after Israeli troops fired at Aalma El Chaab in southern Lebanon. On Monday, Israeli warplanes struck a Hezbollah military structure and infrastructure in the area of Mazraat Aaqmata in southern Lebanon.
Earlier Tuesday, Lebanese Labor Minister Moustafa Bayram said that Israeli attacks caused damage to around 3,000 business facilities in southern Lebanon, according to the National News Agency (NNA).
Bayram said he would contact the Arab Labor Organization and Arab member states as soon as the war ends to request a grant for people affected by Israeli attacks. ■
