According to Nasrallah, Hezbollah delayed launching the attack on Israel announced more than two weeks ago because it was carefully choosing the location of the attack and also to give a chance to negotiations on ending the war in Gaza. The delay was also said to be a punishment for Israel’s enemy. After this first phase, attacks by Iranian and Yemeni Houthi rebels are still to come.
Hezbollah fired 340 rockets at Israel, Nasrallah said. Israel, for its part, has previously attacked targets in southern Lebanon, calling it an “act of self-defense.” Three people were killed in Lebanon. In Israel, according to military data, one soldier was killed. According to the media, the 21-year-old soldier, who was on a naval ship, was hit by fragments of an Israeli air defense missile.
Since the Oct. 7 attacks on Israel by the Palestinian militant group Hamas sparked a war in the Gaza Strip, Hamas’s ally, the Iran-backed Hezbollah movement, has regularly exchanged fire with Israel. But fears of a full-scale conflict have risen after Iran and Hezbollah vowed to avenge the killing of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran, blamed on Israel, and an Israeli strike that killed senior Hezbollah commander Fuad Shukr in Beirut.
2024-08-26 08:38:29