Hezbollah bombards north with rockets and drones as IDF targets launchers in Lebanon
Footage shows controlled explosion in southern Lebanon that triggered earthquake alerts in northern Israel; Israeli jets strike Hezbollah weapons and command sites in Beirut

Hezbollah fired dozens of rockets at northern Israel while Israel’s air defenses shot down four drones launched from Lebanon by the Iran-backed terror group on Saturday.
The hostile aircraft triggered air raid sirens in the Upper and Western Galilee as well as the northern border cities and towns of Kiryat Shmona, Metula and Tel Hai, but no injuries were reported.
In a statement, Hezbollah claimed it launched a drone attack against the Tel Nof air force base, south of Tel Aviv.
In addition to the drones, Hezbollah fired some 200 rockets at northern Israel throughout the day.
In one of the barrages, 15 rockets were launched from Lebanon at the Western Galilee, with some intercepted while the rest hit open areas, the IDF said.
There were no reports of injuries from the rocket fire, which sparked fires at several locations in the north.
תיעוד נדיר של יירוט הכטב"ם בשמי יחיעם הבוקר.
השימוש בהתאם לסעיף 27א' לחוק זכויות יוצרים pic.twitter.com/9FoaWDcXKV— ישראל היום (@IsraelHayomHeb) October 26, 2024
The attacks on the north came as the army pressed on with operations against Hezbollah in Lebanon. Footage posted on social media showed a massive IDF explosion in southern Lebanon Saturday morning, which triggered earthquake alerts across northern Israel.
The blast was from the detonation of a Hezbollah tunnel.
This morning, earthquake alerts were activated across northern Israel due to a massive controlled IDF explosion in southern Lebanon. pic.twitter.com/o818I6ALeZ
— Emanuel (Mannie) Fabian (@manniefabian) October 26, 2024
The IDF also said Saturday that troops with the 91st Division seized four truck-mounted rocket launchers during operations in southern Lebanon this week. According to the military, the launchers were loaded with some 160 rockets.
Separately, around 130 Hezbollah launchers were struck by the Israeli Air Force in the past week, the IDF says.
The launchers included those used to fire rockets at Israel, including in Friday’s attack on Majd al-Krum that killed two residents of the northern Arab town.

Overnight, Israeli fighter jets struck Hezbollah targets in Beirut.
According to the IDF, the targets included weapons manufacturing sites, a command room belonging to Hezbollah’s intelligence division, and surveillance equipment.
The Hezbollah assets were all located in civilian buildings in Beirut’s southern suburb, according to the IDF. Before the strike, the military issued evacuation warnings to civilians.

Separately, the IDF said a cell of Hezbollah operatives who launched a missile at an IDF drone in southern Lebanon Friday were killed in a drone strike a short while later.
The drone flying over Kfar Fila was not hit in the incident, according to the IDF.
Lebanon’s health ministry reported that a Hezbollah-affiliated paramedic was killed in an Israeli strike on a medical center in southern Lebanon, which left five others wounded, three of them also members of the Islamic Health Committee.

Hezbollah began attacking Israel a day after thousands of Hamas-led terrorists stormed southern Israel on October 7, 2023, to kill nearly 1,200 people and take 251 hostages, sparking the war in Gaza.
Shortly afterward, Israel evacuated communities along the border with Lebanon, fearing Hezbollah would carry out a similar attack.
Israel stepped up its airstrikes on the Iran-backed terror group in September, after adding to its official war aims the return home of some 60,000 northern residents. The airstrikes all but decimated Hezbollah’s leadership, paving the way for the ground operation, launched on September 23.
The attacks on northern Israel since October 2023 have resulted in the deaths of 31 civilians. In addition, 55 IDF soldiers and reservists have died in cross-border skirmishes and in the ensuing ground operation launched in southern Lebanon in late September.
Two soldiers have been killed in a drone attack from Iraq, and there have also been several attacks from Syria, without any injuries.
The IDF estimates that more than 2,000 Hezbollah operatives have been killed in the conflict. Around 100 members of other terror groups, along with hundreds of civilians, have also been reported killed in Lebanon.