Syria – Syrian media claimed that the Israeli Air Force targeted at least than seven Hezbollah targets in the country’s Qalamoun region late on Saturday night.
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Hezbollah denied that there were any explosions at its bases, according to a report by Israel’s Channel 2 news.
The IDF has not commented on the situation, but earlier in the evening, released a statement saying that “in the next few hours, explosions will be heard in the Upper Galilee. The explosions are routine, were planned ahead of time and are not connected to a security incident.”
The report came almost a week after terrorist Samir Kuntar was killed in an airstrike in Syria, which were also linked to Israel, though not confirmed.
On December 20, top Hezbollah commander Samir Kuntar was killed when a number of rockets hit a building in the Damascus district of Jaramana. The country’s government loyalist claimed that the strikes were also Israeli.
In a speech on Monday, Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah threatened Israel with revenge over Kuntar’s killing.
Kuntar was responsible for murdering the Haran family in 1979 as part of a PLO operation and later joined Hezbollah following his release from Israeli prison in 2008.
In a statement on Saturday, The United States and its allies said that it conducted 17 air strikes on Christmas Day against Islamic State in Iraq and Syria.
In Syria, coalition military forces conducted five air strikes using attack and remotely piloted aircraft, targeting Islamic State militants near Ar Raqqah, Manbij and Mar’a.