At least 13 wounded in Hezbollah strike on northern Israeli town

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At least 13 Israelis were wounded in strikes on a Bedouin border village in northern Israel on Wednesday, in an attack claimed by Lebanon’s Hezbollah group.
Hezbollah said it targeted a military reconnaissance headquarters in the Bedouin village of Arab Al Aramshe.
Israel’s national emergency service said paramedics were working “in co-operation with an Israeli military medical force”, but made no direct mention of military casualties. It said the victims, “men in their 30s”, had been taken to the Galilee Medical Centre in Nahariya. Four of the men were critically wounded.
It is the highest number of people injured in a single attack on northern Israel since the frontier conflict between Hezbollah and Israel began on October 8.
Hezbollah said the attack, using guided missiles and drones, was in retaliation to Israel’s “assassination of a number of resistance fighters” the day before, when four people – a commander, two fighters, and a civilian – were killed in strikes on the Lebanese towns of Ain Baal and Shehabieh.
The Israeli army said it identified a “number of launches from Lebanon” and “struck the sources of the fire” but made no mention of wounded soldiers. It added that fighter jets also struck a building where Hezbollah members were operating in the southern Lebanese village of Ayta Ash Shab.
Israel and Hezbollah have been engaged in a violent conflict since the day after Israel launched its military offensive in the Gaza Strip.
The attacks, which were initially focused along the border, have gradually increased in scope and intensity, stoking fears of an all-out war.
Hezbollah says it is carrying out the attacks in support of its Palestinian ally Hamas in Gaza.