Hezbollah Fires Missiles and Drones, Striking Merkava Tanks in Al-Qantara and Kherbet Salam

Sirens sounded in parts of northern occupied Palestine after a missile attack from Lebanon, with alert alarms reported in Baram and other districts in the Galilee, according to Elnashra citing Israeli media on Wednesday.

The Israeli Channel 12 announcement said that two missiles were fired from southern Lebanon.

Al-Manar TV Lebanon

Mehr News Agency also said Israeli sources reported that a missile was fired from southern Lebanon towards the Galilee region in northern occupied Palestine.

In parallel, Hezbollah in Lebanon announced that it had directly targeted two Israeli army Merkava tanks in the town of Al-Qantara in southern Lebanon “yesterday” using two drones.

Hezbollah also emphasized that it targeted a gathering of Israeli occupying soldiers in the town of Al-Qantara “yesterday” with missiles.

The Lebanese Army Command announced the martyrdom of a soldier and his brother following the Israeli attack on the town of Kherbet Salam in Bint Jbeil, and Mehr News Agency said the soldier and his brother were on their way to their home in the town of Al-Sawanah on a motorcycle when both were martyred.

The Mehr News Agency account added that despite the extension of the ceasefire between Lebanon and the Zionist regime and ongoing negotiations, the regime continues its attacks on Lebanon.

Al-Manar TV Lebanon described Hezbollah’s attacks in a sequence of numbered statements, framing them as responses to “Israeli” violations of a ceasefire and attacks on villages and home demolitions in southern Lebanon.

In Statement 1, Hezbollah said fighters targeted “at 17:00 on Tuesday 28-04-2026” two Merkava tanks in Al-Qantara town with two loitering gliders, “achieving confirmed hits.”

Al-Thawra Net

Statement 2 said that at “18:00 on Tuesday 28-04-2026” fighters targeted “a gathering of ‘Israeli’ enemy army soldiers in Al-Qantara town with a rocket barrage.”

Statement 3 described an attack at “19:00 on Wednesday 29-04-2026” on a gathering of Israeli enemy army vehicles and soldiers in Al-Bayyada town with two loitering gliders, again “achieving a confirmed hit.”

Statement 4 said at “18:00 on Wednesday 29-04-2026” fighters targeted “two Merkava tanks near Al-Qantara town square” with two loitering gliders, “achieving a confirmed hit.”

Statement 5 added that at “18:45 on Wednesday 29-04-2026” Hezbollah targeted “a Merkava tank near Beit Lif town with a loitering glider,” also “achieving a confirmed hit.”

The Al-Manar English Website was cited as the source for the statements, and the overall framing emphasized “In defense of Lebanon and its people” in each entry.

التلفزيون العربي reported that Hezbollah announced it carried out 23 rocket and drone attacks against Israeli forces, vehicles, and military sites as part of ongoing clashes on the Lebanese front, and it said among the targets was the Israeli Ministry of Defense’s headquarters (the Kirya) in Tel Aviv and the Israeli Army’s Northern Command.

The outlet said Hezbollah explained the attacks came “in defense of Lebanon and its people amid the Israeli aggression since March 2,” and it listed targets including the Defense Ministry’s headquarters in central Tel Aviv and the Dolphin base of the Military Intelligence Corps in the northern part of the city.

It also said Hezbollah announced shelling the headquarters of the Israeli Army’s Northern Command north of Safed, an artillery position in the Shamir settlement, the Misgav Am site opposite the town of Adaisseh, and the Abbad site opposite the border town of Hula.

The same report quoted Al-Arabi TV correspondent Ramez Al-Qadi saying Hezbollah announced the destruction of Merkava tanks in the town of Debel, “bringing the total since last night to 18 Merkava tanks.”

It further stated that Israeli Channel 24 reported Hezbollah fired around 600 rockets, shells, and drones in 24 hours, most of them toward Israeli army forces in southern Lebanon.

The report also cited Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar saying that since the start of the current war the group has fired more than 3,500 rockets, shells, and drones.

On the humanitarian side, the outlet said Lebanese authorities put the Israeli aggression at 1,094 martyrs and 3,119 wounded, and “more than one million displaced to date.”

The same التلفزيون العربي report said the Israeli army earlier on Thursday announced the death of a soldier in a clash in southern Lebanon, describing it as the third loss it had acknowledged since the current aggression began, while Israeli media spoke of two other soldiers injured, “one of them seriously.”

It also said the Israeli army claimed Golani Brigade forces continued focused ground operations south of Lebanon, asserting they had destroyed about 200 Hezbollah infrastructure facilities, while “independent sources could not verify these claims.”

Masrawy

The report described Hezbollah’s own claims of destroying Merkava tanks in areas including Deir Siran, Debel, and Al-Qantara using guided missiles and “confirming direct hits,” and it said Hezbollah reported targeting gatherings of Israeli vehicles and soldiers in Qouzah.

It added that the report described clashes with light and medium weapons at point-blank range during Israeli forces’ attempts to advance toward southern towns, and it said Hezbollah reported that this resulted in injuries among the Israeli army.

In a separate thread, Masrawy cited Yedioth Ahronoth saying Hezbollah launched “more than 100 rockets” and drones toward northern Israel since early Wednesday morning, and it said an Israeli reserve soldier was seriously injured by a rocket attack that targeted Israeli forces in Lebanon earlier that day.

Masrawy also said Hezbollah announced the destruction of two Merkava tanks in the town of al-Taybeh in southern Lebanon, raising the number of tanks destroyed to eight, and it said Hezbollah shelled Beit Hallel and Nahariya with rockets.

Finally, it said Hezbollah carried out an assault with offensive drones targeting a gathering of the Israeli army in the settlement of Shlomi.

القدس العربي reported that Israeli commanders were “very frustrated” due to Hezbollah’s “serious drone threat in the south,” and it said Hezbollah announced targeting gatherings of Israeli soldiers and an Israeli Merkava tank in the square of the southern Lebanon town of al-Qantara using two assault drones.

“Yedioth Ahronoth: Hezbollah fires more than 100 rockets and drones toward northern Israel”

Masrawy

The outlet also said Hezbollah targeted a D9 military bulldozer demolishing a house in the south “in retaliation for Israel's violation of the ceasefire.”

Mehr News Agency

It then quoted Israeli military officials acknowledging that the army had entered the war in Lebanon “without sufficient tools to counter the drone threat Hezbollah is attacking it with,” and it attributed to IDF Radio the statement: “We entered the war in Lebanon without adequate tools to confront the drone threat.”

The report said IDF Radio described the “danger posed by fiberglass-based explosive drones” as a challenge for Israeli forces in southern Lebanon, and it said the issue received significant attention during discussions at the Israeli Army High Command Forum in Ramot David yesterday.

It also quoted the commander of the 282nd Artillery Brigade as telling leaders that the drone threat poses a major operational challenge and that they must “rethink how to organize themselves to confront it.”

The outlet further said the Israeli army announced on Monday an explosion of a Hezbollah drone near its forces in southern Lebanon, claiming to have intercepted another with no injuries, while maintaining a “systematic blackout regarding the results of attacks inside Israel.”

It added that the Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth stated that alongside ground fighting, forces face a tactical challenge because of “the danger of explosive drones,” and it said that on Sunday “Sergeant Eidân Fox” was killed in an attack by an explosive drone near the town of Taybeh, with six others injured including an officer and three soldiers in serious condition.