ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 55

Live UpdateFrom the Liveblog of Saturday, November 18, 2023

IDF says it intercepted a ‘suspicious aerial target’ over Lebanon

By Emanuel Fabian 18 November 2023, 5:46 pm 4 Edit

Emanuel (Mannie) Fabian is The Times of Israel's military correspondent.

Artillery fire from an Israeli position hits the hills near the outskirts of the border town of Odaisseh in southern Lebanon on November 17, 2023. (Hasan FNEICH / AFP)

Artillery fire from an Israeli position hits the hills near the outskirts of the border town of Odaisseh in southern Lebanon on November 17, 2023. (Hasan FNEICH / AFP)

The Israel Defense Forces says air defenses intercepted a “suspicious aerial target” over Lebanese airspace a short while ago.

Meanwhile, a number of rockets were fired at army positions along the Lebanon border.

In response to the rocket attack, the IDF says tanks and aircraft struck several Hezbollah observation posts.

Separately, the IDF says that this morning a military drone made an emergency landing in an open area in northern Israel.

It says the aircraft was not hit by enemy fire, and the incident is being investigated.