The Lebanese armed group claims its forces “confronted an Israeli warplane in the airspace of the western sector” at 2:15pm local time with a surface-to-air missile, Al Jazeera reports.

There has been no immediate comment from the Israeli army.

In another attack, Hezbollah claims it targeted a gathering of vehicles and soldiers of the Israeli army at the port in the town of Naqoura with a drone strike.

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