Israeli Strikes on Hezbollah Targets

The Israeli army releases footage showing what it says are strikes on Hezbollah targets on the Lebanon-Israel border.

Israel has attacked more than 50 Hezbollah targets in Syria and 3,400 in Lebanon since the war with Hamas in Gaza began in October, Israeli army spokesman Daniel Hagari said.

"Since the beginning of the war, we have attacked, from the ground and air, more than 50 such targets of Hezbollah spread throughout Syria," Hagari told reporters, adding that more than 3,400 similar strikes against the group had been carried out in southern Lebanon.

Hezbollah has for years been fighting on the side of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in his country's war, and is an ally of Palestinian Islamist group Hamas.

Israel rarely comments on individual strikes targeting Syria, but it has repeatedly said it will not allow arch-foe Iran, which backs Assad, to expand its presence there.

Since the outbreak of war between Hamas and Israel on October 7, the Lebanese-Israeli border has witnessed near-daily exchanges of fire, mainly between the Israeli army and Hezbollah.

At least 218 people have been killed in Lebanon, mostly Hezbollah fighters but also at least 26 civilians.

Hagari said more than 200 "militants and commanders" had been killed in Israeli strikes on Lebanon.

In northern Israel, nine Israeli soldiers and six civilians have been killed since the war in Gaza began, Israeli officials have said.

The war in Gaza broke out following Hamas's attack on Israel on October 7 that resulted in the deaths of more than 1,160 people in Israel, mostly civilians.

In response, Israel launched a blistering air, land and sea offensive in Gaza that has killed at least 27,238 people, most of them women and children, according to the Hamas-run territory's health ministry.