Hezbollah attacks damage homes in north; IDF said to destroy east Lebanon bridge

Lebanese media says bridge linking two towns struck after IDF said it would hit it to block Hezbollah reinforcements; military says airstrikes targeted Hezbollah sites in Beirut

By Emanuel Fabian and Agencies 4 April 2026, 4:04 am
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A home in the northern city of Kiryat Shmona is damaged following a Hezbollah rocket attack, April 1, 2026. (Fire and Rescue Service)
A home in the northern city of Kiryat Shmona is damaged following a Hezbollah rocket attack, April 1, 2026. (Fire and Rescue Service)

Hezbollah continued to fire barrages of rockets at Israel on Friday, causing damage in the northern community of Gesher Haziv in the Western Galilee, while a drone also launched from Lebanon by the terror group caused damage in Metula.

Footage showed a bedroom with a hole in the wall as a result of a rocket impact in Gesher Haziv, while another video showed damage to a private home in Metula.

In one of the barrages, several rockets launched by Hezbollah at Haifa on Friday evening were intercepted or struck open areas, the IDF said.

No injuries were reported in the attacks.

Hezbollah has been firing hundreds of rockets per day, according to the IDF. However, the vast majority of the daily rocket fire has been directed at Israeli forces operating in southern Lebanon, with only a few dozen projectiles crossing the border into Israel.

The IDF believes Hezbollah still possesses thousands of short-range rockets, along with hundreds of longer-range projectiles. The IDF has said that Hezbollah is launching most of its attacks from deeper within southern Lebanon, and not from close to the border.

Meanwhile, Israel destroyed a bridge in eastern Lebanon on Friday, Lebanese official media reported, after Israel’s military warned it would hit two bridges in the area to prevent the transfer of reinforcements to Hezbollah.

Israel’s military warned it would hit two bridges in Sohmor and Mashghara to prevent the transfer of reinforcements to Hezbollah, publishing a map identifying two bridges within around 100 meters of each other.

“Israeli warplanes targeted the bridge that links Sohmor with Mashghara, leading to its destruction,” Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency says.

Israel has previously struck five other bridges over the Litani in the country’s south, including most of the main routes crossing the waterway.

Additionally, the IDF announced that it had begun a wave of strikes against “terror infrastructure” in Beirut on Friday night. No further details were immediately given.

Destroyed houses that were hit in an Israeli airstrike in Saksakiyeh village, south Lebanon, April 3, 2026. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

The IDF has struck dozens of Hezbollah targets in Beirut’s southern suburbs in the past month, and the military has repeatedly called on Lebanese civilians to evacuate the area, including earlier on Friday.

Elsewhere, Israeli troops captured a cache of Hezbollah first-person view (FPV) drones during operations in southern Lebanon.

The military said troops of the Nahal Brigade’s 50th Battalion raided a Hezbollah site where they located numerous weapons, including explosive-laden drones, a sniper rifle, RPGs, and other equipment.

Hezbollah operatives have been increasingly using FPV drones in attacks on Israeli troops carrying out a ground offensive against the terror group in southern Lebanon.

FPV drones captured by Israeli troops in southern Lebanon, in a handout photo published April 3, 2026. (Israel Defense Forces)

The Israeli Air Force also bombed a Hezbollah rocket launcher in Lebanon used in a barrage on northern Israel on Friday evening, the military said.

According to the IDF, the launcher was struck minutes after the attack.

Additionally, three Hezbollah operatives who were planning to launch rockets at Israel from southern Lebanon were killed in a strike on Thursday, the IDF said.

According to the military, troops of the elite Multi-Domain unit identified a primed rocket launcher during their operations in southern Lebanon.

The launcher was struck and destroyed, and “three terrorists operating near the launcher were eliminated in a strike,” the IDF said.

Israeli officials have said the IDF is establishing a demilitarized “security zone” in southern Lebanon up to the Litani River, until the threat of Hezbollah is removed.

The buffer zone would be controlled with surveillance and firepower, as well as ground troops in areas deemed strategically necessary, the military has said.

Defense Minister Israel Katz has said he instructed the IDF to raze all buildings in the so-called “first line” of Lebanese villages close to the Israeli border, to ensure Hezbollah cannot use them to stage attacks on Israel.

Ten IDF soldiers have been killed in southern Lebanon amid fighting against Hezbollah, two civilians were killed by Hezbollah rockets, and an Israeli civilian was mistakenly killed in the north by Israeli artillery shelling.

In Lebanon, the Israeli military has said that it has killed some 1,000 Hezbollah operatives, including hundreds of members of the terror group’s elite Radwan Force, since hostilities escalated amid the war with Iran.

More than 3,500 Hezbollah targets in Lebanon have also been struck, including hundreds of command centers, weapon depots, and rocket and missile launchers, according to the IDF.

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