Beirut, Sept 7 (UNI) Israeli warplanes carried out intensive raids on Hezbollah missile platforms in southern Lebanon Friday night, according to Lebanese military sources.

The military sources, who spoke anonymously, told Xinhua that several Israeli warplanes carried out 15 airstrikes in less than half an hour, targeting the valleys between the village of Froun, the municipality of Ghandourieh and the town of Srifa in the western and central sectors.

The planes fired about 30 air-to-ground missiles that targeted Hezbollah missile platforms, where several massive fires broke out, the sources added.

"Civil defense vehicles and ambulances were unable to reach the targeted areas due to the intensive flying of Israeli drones in their airspace and the rubble caused by the raids on the roads leading to them," said the sources.

The Public Health Emergency Operations Center, affiliated with the Ministry of Public Health, said in a statement that Israeli artillery shelling injured one person and caused another to suffocate.

The military sources revealed that the Lebanese army monitored the launch of dozens of Katyusha and Burkan rockets and a group of drones from the Lebanese side to the Israeli side.

Meanwhile, Hezbollah announced in statements that its fighters conducted several offensive operations on sites in northern Israel, "causing confirmed casualties."

Tensions along the Lebanon-Israel border escalated on Oct. 8, 2023, following a barrage of rockets launched by Hezbollah toward Israel in solidarity with Hamas' attack on Israel the day before. Israel then retaliated by firing heavy artillery toward southeastern Lebanon. UNI/XINHUA AKS