Israeli drones bombed a Palestinian base in eastern Lebanon early Monday amid rising tensions between the Iran-backed Hezbollah movement in Lebanon and the Jewish state.

The strike came a day after an alleged Israeli drone hit a stronghold of the militant group in southern Beirut while another crashed and exploded nearby.

Lebanese President Michel Aoun told the UN’s special coordinator for the nation, Jan Kubis, that the attacks in the Dahyeh suburbs and in the Bekaa Valley violate a Security Council resolution that ended the 2006 war between Israel and Hezbollah.

“What happened is equal to a declaration of war and gives us the right to defend our sovereignty, independence and the safety of our land,” Aoun said. “We are people who seek peace and not war, and we don’t accept that anyone threatens us though any means.”

On Sunday, Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah issued the toughest threats to his enemy in years and said the drones had launched a “new phase.”

With Post wires