Hezbollah fires rocket salvos at Israeli base in northern occupied territories
The Lebanese resistance movement Hezbollah has launched a barrage of missiles at the occupied territories in retaliation for the Israeli regime’s ongoing aggression against Lebanon.
Hezbollah said in a statement on Sunday that its fighters have fired a ‘big rocket salvo’ at an Israeli military base in the northern occupied town of Safed.
The resistance group went on to say that the operation was “in defense of Lebanon” and in response to Israeli attacks on Lebanese cities, villages and civilians.
The Israeli military also noted that at least 70 rockets were fired from Lebanon at areas on the northern side of the occupied territories within minutes.
“Following the sirens that sounded between 11:09 (0809 GMT) and 11:12 am in the Western Galilee and Upper Galilee areas, approximately 70 projectiles were identified crossing from Lebanon,” the military said.
Hezbollah’s latest attack came after the Israeli military carried out a strike on the southern suburbs of Lebanon’s capital Beirut earlier in the day, claiming it has targeted an alleged Hezbollah intelligence headquarters. However, residents said civilian residences were hit in the airstrike.
The strikes were launched a few hours after the occupation army’s spokesman Avichay Adraee warned people in the Haret Hreik and Hadath neighborhoods to evacuate.
Separately on Sunday, Lebanon’s National News Agency (NNA) reported that Israeli warplanes have struck dozens of villages and towns in southern Lebanon, including the city of Nabatiyeh which has been targeted for a third time this week.
“Warplanes struck… the city of Nabatiyeh seven times” including on an inhabited building, with rescuers still looking for survivors under the rubble, it said.
The Lebanese army said three soldiers were killed Sunday in an Israeli strike in the country’s south.
The troops were killed when their vehicle was targeted on a road connecting the border village of Ain Ebel to the nearby town of Hanin, the army said.
Israel has been targeting Lebanon since October 2023, when it launched a genocidal war on the Gaza Strip.
Hezbollah has been responding to the aggression with numerous retaliatory operations, targeting the occupied Palestinian territories.
Since late September, Israel has escalated its strikes against Hezbollah, assassinating its leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah and a number of its senior figures.
At least 2,350 people have been killed by Israeli fire, and 10,906 others wounded since the clashes began last year, according to the health ministry.
The Lebanese resistance movement has vowed to keep up its operations against Israel as long as the Israeli regime continues its Gaza war, which has so far killed at least 42,519 Palestinians, mostly women and children.
