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Rocket Attack on Israel - Revenge for Leader's Death

A comprehensive rocket attack has been directed at northern Israel following yesterday's Israeli air raid where a Hezbollah leader was killed. It involves a hundred projectiles in what the Lebanese Islamist movement claims is its largest attack to date, aside from the Gaza War.

» Updated: 16 July 2024, 16:11

» Published: 12 June 2024

Rocket Attack on Israel - Revenge for Leader's Death
Photo: Bilal Hussein/AP/TT

A comprehensive rocket attack has been directed at northern Israel following yesterday's Israeli air raid where a Hezbollah leader was killed.

This involves hundreds of projectiles, which the Lebanese Islamist movement claims is its largest attack to date, aside from the Gaza War.

On Wednesday morning, air raid sirens sounded in northern Israel. The Israeli military initially counted 90 projectiles, then around 160.

Several rockets are said to have been shot down, while others struck and caused fires on the ground. There are no reports of casualties or significant material damage in Israel.

Sources within Lebanese Hezbollah claim that the attack is the movement's most extensive against Israel since the Gaza War broke out last autumn.

Revenge for previous attack

This comes a day after an Israeli air raid on the town of Jouaiyya in Lebanon, about a mile and a half inland. A high-ranking Hezbollah commander was killed there.

A high-ranking Hezbollah member promised on Wednesday that the militant group would step up its attacks on Israel.

"We will increase the intensity, strength, quantity, and quality of our attacks," said Hashem Safieddine at the commander's funeral.

Daily shelling

The commander, Taleb Sami Abdallah, also known as Abu Taleb, was killed in the attack. A source within the Lebanese military tells AFP that it is the highest-ranking person within Hezbollah to have been killed during the war between Israel and Hamas.

At least three other people are said to have been killed in the Israeli raid.

Israel and Iran-backed Lebanese Hezbollah have been shelling each other almost daily since the Gaza War began following Hamas's terrorist attack on Israel in October. On Tuesday night, at least five people were killed when Israeli fighter jets struck targets deep in Lebanon. According to Israel, Hezbollah was the target of the raid.

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