Hezbollah airs drone footage showing strike on Iron Dome battery in northern Israel

Terror group continues to fire rockets, drones at IDF troops in south Lebanon, as Israel strikes Hezbollah infrastructure; Beirut says 2 Hezbollah-affiliated medics killed

The Hezbollah terror group on Sunday published footage it said showed an Israeli Iron Dome battery being hit in an explosive drone attack last week, as cross-border violence between Israel and Lebanon continued throughout the day ahead of an expected third round of direct talks later this week.

The dramatically stylized clip, dated Friday, May 8, shows a first-person view drone approaching an Iron Dome battery as a number of IDF soldiers stand nearby, seemingly unaware of the incoming threat. Hezbollah claimed the attack occurred in the Western Galilee near the Lebanon border.

The IDF had not previously publicized any such impact. It did not comment Sunday on the Hezbollah video.

The terror group has made frequent use of small first-person view (FPV) drones in its attacks on Israeli troops. Some of the drones are guided using a spool of fiber-optic cable, which makes them immune to efforts to electronically jam their signal.

Hezbollah claimed on Friday to have launched a swarm of drones at a sensitive Israeli military base in northern Israel. In a statement, the terror group said it targeted an air traffic control base that sits atop Mount Meron, around eight kilometers (five miles) from the border.

The military said Friday that two soldiers were wounded, including one seriously, by a drone impact in Israeli territory adjacent to the Lebanon border, not in the Meron area. It is unclear if it was the same incident shown in the Hezbollah clip.

Last month, the IDF admitted that Hezbollah had succeeded in attacking an M548 cargo carrier in northern Israel, setting off a fire and wounding 12 soldiers. Several artillery shells in the area also exploded.

Meanwhile, Hezbollah continued to target Israeli troops in south Lebanon with drones and rockets, while the IDF struck a number of the terror group’s targets in southern Lebanon.

Sirens blared Sunday evening in a number of communities near the Lebanon border. The IDF later said that the sirens were set off by interceptor missiles launched at an apparent Hezbollah aerial threat over an area of southern Lebanon where troops are deployed.

It said the sirens were activated in Israel as a precaution due to concern about shrapnel from the interceptors.

The IDF said Sunday that it intercepted a number of drones and rockets fired at Israeli troops in southern Lebanon throughout the day. No injuries were reported.

Throughout Sunday, the IDF said, it struck a number of Hezbollah targets in south Lebanon, including weapons depots, launchers, and command centers used by the terror group.

Earlier Sunday, the Israeli military said strikes in south Lebanon over the weekend killed more than 10 Hezbollah operatives and targeted some 40 sites used by the terror group. The IDF said the targets included buildings used by Hezbollah, weapons depots, a rocket launcher, and other infrastructure.

The operatives were struck after being identified near Israeli troops, the IDF added.

Lebanon’s health ministry said that two paramedics from the Hezbollah-affiliated Islamic Health Committee were killed and five others were wounded Sunday in two Israeli strikes on the country’s south.

As the state-run National News Agency (NNA) reported Israeli airstrikes and artillery shelling on a variety of other south Lebanon areas, Israel’s army warned residents of three villages to evacuate, saying it would act forcefully against the Iran-backed group there.

A Lebanese health ministry statement said that Israel “directly targeted, with two strikes, two Health Committee sites,” killing one paramedic and wounding three others in Qalaway, and killing another paramedic and wounding two others in Tibnin.

Despite a US-brokered ceasefire in place since April 17, Hezbollah has continued to attack both Israel and Israeli troops stationed in south Lebanon, while Israel has continued to strike the terror group’s targets multiple times a day.

Under the terms of the truce released by Washington, Israel reserves the right to act against “planned, imminent, or ongoing attacks.”

Its troops are operating behind an Israeli-declared “yellow line,” which runs around 10 kilometers (six miles) north of Lebanon’s border. Residents have been warned not to return to the area.

Meanwhile, Lebanon and Israel are preparing to hold a third round of talks on Thursday and Friday in Washington, with veteran Lebanese diplomat Simon Karam recently appointed by President Joseph Aoun to lead his country’s delegation.

A first landmark meeting between the countries, which have no diplomatic relations, was held days before US President Donald Trump announced the ceasefire, while the second round came as he announced a three-week truce extension.

Joining diplomats from each side will, for the first time, be military representatives, an Israeli official said last week, adding that the sides would discuss more concrete measures that can be taken to disarm Hezbollah.