Hezbollah yesterday said it launched more than 200 rockets at several military bases in Israel in retaliation for a strike that killed one of its senior commanders.
The attack by the Iran-backed militant group was one of the largest in the months-long conflict along the Lebanon-Israel border, with tensions escalating over the past few weeks.
The Israeli military said that “numerous projectiles and suspicious aerial targets” had entered its territory from Lebanon, many of which were intercepted.
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There were no immediate reports of casualties.
It said about 200 “projectiles” were launched toward the occupied Syrian Golan Heights and more than 20 drones flew into Israeli territory, but it had intercepted some of them.
After Hezbollah’s attack, Israel struck various towns in southern Lebanon. The Israeli military said it hit Hezbollah’s “military structures” in the southern border towns of Ramyeh and Houla.
Lebanese state-run National News Agency reported that an Israeli drone strike in Houla killed at least one person.
Israeli jets also broke the sound barrier over the Lebanese capital and other areas in the country.
Israel on Wednesday acknowledged that it had killed Mohammad Naameh Nasser, who headed one of Hezbollah’s three regional divisions in southern Lebanon.
Hours after the killing, Hezbollah launched scores of Katyusha rockets and Falaq rockets with heavy warheads into northern Israel and the occupied Syrian Golan Heights.
It launched more rockets yesterday and said it had also sent exploding drones into several bases.
Nasser was of great importance to Hezbollah, which said he took part in battles in conflicts in Syria and Iraq from 2011 until 2016 and fought in the group’s last war with Israel in 2006.
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