Hezbollah fires 100 rockets into Golan, Israel hits again near Baalbek
Hezbollah fired Tuesday 100 rockets at two military bases in the Golan Heights, in some of the heaviest fire emanating from Lebanon since the start of the war in Gaza.
The Israeli military confirmed that about 100 projectiles have been launched from Lebanon into Israel. In retaliation, Israeli warplanes carried out two airstrikes on the towns of Sareen and al-Nabi Sheet near the country’s northeastern city of Baalbek. Warplanes had earlier bombed the southern border towns of Houla and Markaba.
The strikes on Baalbek killed at least one person and injured eight others. They came a day after other strikes also near Baalbek killed a civilian and wounded six others.
Hezbollah said the morning attack was in response to Monday's strikes.
It said it has struck "with more than a hundred Katyusha rockets" the headquarters of the Air and Missile Defense Command in the Kaila' Barracks, a missile and artillery base in Yo'av and artillery positions around it, "in response to Israeli attacks on our people, villages and cities," and the killing of a citizen in Baalbek.
The Israeli military said early Tuesday it struck sites belonging to the Lebanese Hezbollah’s aerial forces in retaliation for previous Hezbollah attacks towards the Golan Heights.
Later on Tuesday, Hezbollah targeted the al-Raheb post and surveillance equipment in Berkat Risha and Jal al-Alam, while Israeli warplanes struck the outskirts of al-Naqoura, al Khiam, and a house in Bint Jbeil, reportedly wounding a civilian.
Israel’s military and fighters from the Lebanese Hezbollah have been trading fire since the Israel-Hamas was began on Oct. 7. More than 220 Hezbollah fighters and nearly 40 civilians have been killed on the Lebanese side, while in Israel, nine soldiers and 10 civilians have been killed in the attacks.
Tens of thousands of people have been displaced on both sides of the border because of the fighting.
Source: Associated Press
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