Lebanon’s Hezbollah fires ‘dozens of rockets’ at Israeli positions
Al Jazeera
Attacks by Iran-aligned group come as Israel anticipates an Iranian response to an air strike on its Syria consulate.
Hezbollah said it has fired “dozens of rockets” at Israeli artillery positions in response to the Israeli military’s strikes in southern Lebanon, in one of its largest assaults since the start of the war on Gaza.
The Iran-aligned armed Lebanese group confirmed in a statement late on Friday that it launched dozens of Katyusha rockets at “enemy artillery positions” in northern Israel and the occupied Golan Heights.
The rockets triggered sirens in multiple communities across Upper Galilee in northern Israel, with air defence missiles engaging the incoming projectiles.
The Israeli military said “40 launches were identified from Lebanese territory, some of which were intercepted. The rest fell in open areas.”
“This is a large number of rockets and drones, one of the biggest barrages of the war so far in Gaza,” said Al Jazeera’s Rory Challands, reporting from occupied East Jerusalem.
