Lebanese fightergroup Hezbollah threatened Israel with more attacks if its offensive in Lebanon continued, after a drone attack on a base near Israel’s Haifa Sunday killed four soldiers.

Hezbollah “promises the enemy that what it witnessed today in southern Haifa is nothing compared to what awaits it if it decides to continue its aggression against our […] people,” it said.

In what it described as a “complex” operation, the group said it had launched dozens of missiles towards Nahariya and Acre north of Haifa “with the goal of keeping Israeli defence systems busy”.

At the same time, it launched “squadrons of various drones, some of which were being used for the first time, towards various areas in Acre and Haifa, where they were able to get past Israeli air defence radars without being detected” and hit the training camp in Binyamina south of Haifa, it added.

They “exploded in the rooms where dozens of officers and soldiers of the Israeli enemy were present”.

After claiming the Binyamina attack, Hezbollah said it had launched missiles at a “maintenance and rehabilitation base” of the army, also south of Haifa.