Hezbollah launched a large-scale drone attack on Tuesday toward a target in northern Israel, i24NEWS reported.

According to the report, a security official familiar with the details described the incident as “the most intense drone attack ever carried out against Israel.”

During the late afternoon hours, two separate waves of drone swarms were launched toward the northern border.

In the first wave, two drones were launched at IDF forces in southern Lebanon, wounding two soldiers—one moderately and one lightly, and another two drones were launched toward a target along the northern border, sparking a fire. The Israeli Air Force attempted to intercept several of the drones.

Less than an hour later, a second and more powerful wave followed. Several drones—at least six—were launched toward the same target inside Israel and circled above it for several minutes while searching for the ideal strike point.

A soldier told i24NEWS: “I saw two hit the target, and within five seconds, we identified another one hovering between the buildings looking for people. You can see everything with your own eyes—the fiber-optic spool, the drone itself, and a huge explosive charge.”

According to the report, this was the first time a coordinated attack targeting a single site inside Israel had been identified, and the largest such attack to date.

A security source familiar with the incident said the primary concern is the simultaneous operation of multiple drones: “Even if you manage to neutralize two or three, there are still others trying to pursue the target,” he said.

The IDF is working on deploying multiple anti-drone measures to soldiers in southern Lebanon, although the military acknowledged it currently has no entirely effective technological answer to Hezbollah’s fiber-optic attack drones.

The most recent measure adopted by the IDF is an anti-drone innovation developed by Ukrainian troops—rotating barbed-wire barriers.

(YWN Israel Desk—Jerusalem)