The Lebanese army said that three of its soldiers were killed in an Israeli attack on an army vehicle on the Ain Ebel Hanin road in southern Lebanon. For its part, the Israeli army said that it had monitored the launch of about 175 rockets from Lebanon towards Israel since midnight.

Today, Sunday, the Lebanese Hezbollah announced that it had bombed 3 Israeli military bases with missiles, in response to intensive Israeli raids that targeted dozens of towns and villages.

The party stated in three statements that its fighters had bombarded with missiles the Tira Carmel base south of the coastal city of Haifa, the Beria base northeast of the city of Safed, in addition to the Shimshon base west of Lake Tiberias, which it had targeted "in response to the targeting of civilians."

Earlier today, Lebanese media and medical sources announced the killing of 11 citizens and the injury of others as a result of Israeli raids targeting various areas in the south.

Hezbollah also announced that it had bombed gatherings of Israeli soldiers and military headquarters in several areas, including Acre, Haifa, Safed, and the settlements of Shlomi, Admit, and Yara in the Galilee, which resulted in the injury of at least 4 Israelis.

Israeli media reported that 15 firefighting teams were trying to extinguish fires that broke out in the Upper Galilee as a result of rocket fire from Lebanon.

Bombing and destruction

For its part, the Israeli army bombed the southern suburbs of Beirut and several towns in southern Lebanon, and also blew up houses in 3 border towns.

Al Jazeera's correspondent reported renewed Israeli shelling of Haret Hreik in the southern suburbs of Beirut.

The Israeli occupation army had issued a warning to evacuate several buildings in Haret Hreik and the Hadath Beirut area in the southern suburb, in preparation for bombing them.

The army said it attacked a Hezbollah intelligence headquarters and an underground weapons production workshop in Beirut. It added in a statement that three senior members of the party were eliminated.

In a related context, the Israeli army, according to what the Lebanese National News Agency reported, carried out a large-scale bombing of homes in 3 towns in southern Lebanon.

The agency reported that the Israeli occupation army is carrying out a large-scale bombing operation in buildings in the town of Adaisseh, and is also carrying out the same operation in the neighboring towns of Rab Thalatheen and Markaba, amidst heavy raids that have targeted dozens of towns and villages in southern Lebanon.

Gallant's visit

For his part, Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Galant said that Israel's goal in its war on the northern border is to "clean the entire area to return citizens to their homes," as he put it.

During a visit to inspect the fighters of the 98th Division on the northern border, Galant confirmed that the army is carrying out the operation correctly, he said.

He pointed out that Israel has Hezbollah prisoners who "tell Israel about the fear of the party's fighters and their inability to deal with the attacks."

Galant expressed his belief that Hezbollah is collapsing on the lines of contact and in the areas of continuous strikes, as he put it.

The axes of the military confrontation between Hezbollah and Israel (Al Jazeera)

The axes of the military confrontation on the ground between Hezbollah and the Israeli army (Al Jazeera)

expensive

In a related context, Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper said that expanding the Israeli war in the north has cost $6.7 billion since the beginning of last September.

The newspaper quoted an Israeli military official as saying that the costs of one day of fighting in Lebanon amount to about $134 million and may increase soon.

She added that the expansion of the war requires an increase in the budget in the absence of funding sources, noting that the costs of ammunition used in Lebanon are very high.

At the same time, Yedioth Ahronoth quoted a senior economic official as saying that enduring a long war in the north and south is difficult for the Israeli economy.

After about a year of cross-border shelling, Israel has escalated its raids since September 23, targeting what it says are Hezbollah strongholds in the southern suburbs of Beirut and in southern and eastern Lebanon, before announcing at the end of the same month the start of ground incursions across the border.

At the same time, Hezbollah intensified its launch of rocket barrages and suicide drones targeting Israeli army positions, settlements near the border, and cities and towns deep inside Israel.