Three IDF soldiers were seriously wounded in a Hezbollah attack in the Ali Taher ridge area of southern Lebanon overnight, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office announces in a statement.
“This morning Hezbollah violated the ceasefire in Lebanon by attacking our soldiers in the security zone, which protects Israeli communities just across the border. The Hezbollah attack seriously injured three of our soldiers,” the Prime Minister’s Office says in a rare English-language statement issued on Shabbat.
“The IDF responded by striking the Hezbollah terror headquarters which ordered the attack,” the PMO says, referring to a strike in the town of Ansar, which, according to Lebanese media, killed seven people, including three children and two women.
“Only later did the IDF learn that Hezbollah deliberately put civilians in that military compound,” the statement adds.
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