Israeli media reported on Saturday that the Lebanese Hezbollah party fired about 50 rockets towards towns that had not been evacuated in the Upper Galilee in northern Israel.
Hezbollah’s response today comes after an Israeli airstrike on a building in the Nabatieh area in southern Lebanon on Friday night, killing 10 people, including a woman and her two children in the Wadi al-Kfour area, and causing other injuries, according to the Lebanese Ministry of Health.
The Israeli authorities issued instructions to the residents of the Upper Galilee to stay near the shelters. They added that missiles were intercepted in the Safed area after the alarms were activated, stressing that the missile bombardment is still continuing from southern Lebanon towards Israel.
Lebanese citizens on the scene confirmed that the Israeli raid targeted a commercial establishment, denying the presence of any Hezbollah elements. It is noteworthy that Hezbollah, supported by Iran, has been exchanging fire with Israel across the border almost daily since the war in the Gaza Strip began on October 7, in support of Gaza and in support of Hamas, according to its confirmation.
The Israeli army announced on Saturday that it had monitored the launch of 55 rockets from Lebanon towards northern Israel, without causing any injuries, while some fires broke out in the area.
Israeli army spokesman Avichay Adraee said in a post on his account on the “X” platform, formerly Twitter: “Regarding the alerts that were activated a short while ago in the Ayelet Hashahar area in the north, the launch of about 55 rockets from Lebanon was monitored, some of which fell in open areas without causing any injuries.”
But tensions have risen recently after the killing of Hezbollah’s top military commander, Fouad Shukr, in an Israeli airstrike in Beirut’s southern suburbs. Shukr’s assassination was followed by the killing of Hamas’s political bureau chief, Ismail Haniyeh, in Tehran in a strike attributed to Israel. Both Hezbollah and Iran have vowed an inevitable response.
The escalation across the Lebanese-Israeli border has killed at least 579 people in Lebanon, most of them Hezbollah fighters and at least 121 civilians, according to Agence France-Presse.
While the Israeli authorities announced the killing of at least 22 soldiers and 26 civilians, including 12 in the occupied Syrian Golan.
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2024-08-18 16:47:25