ISTANBUL 

Hezbollah said Friday that its fighters carried out 48 attacks and confronting operations against the Israeli army, marking the highest record of attacks since last Oct. 8 in a single day.

Separate statements by the Lebanese group said fighters targeted 31 groups of Israeli soldiers in northern Israel and southern Lebanon with rockets and artillery shells.

The group also attacked seven Israeli Merkava tanks inflicting fatalities.

Hezbollah added that it targeted three settlements in Safed city two times, five military sites and an artillery bunker in northern Israel with barrages of rockets.

The attacks included forcing an Israeli drone to leave Lebanon's airspace after targeting it with a surface-to-air rocket.

The Israel Hayom newspaper said it was "a record breaking" number of attacks for Hezbollah in one day since Oct. 8, 2023.

Israel has mounted a huge air campaign in Lebanon since last month against what it said are Hezbollah targets in an escalation from a year of cross-border warfare between Israel and the group since the start of Israel’s brutal offensive on the Gaza Strip.

More than 2,600 people have since been killed and more than 12,200 injured in Israeli attacks, according to Lebanese health authorities.

Israel expanded the conflict on Oct. 1 this year by launching a ground assault into southern Lebanon.

*Writing by Ahmed Asmar