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Middle East: The militant group in Lebanon, Hezbollah, unleashed a severe attack on Israel, launching more than 200 rockets and drones. Hezbollah was targeting Israeli military positions in response to the killing of its senior leader by an Israeli strike, Al Jazeera reported.
On Thursday, a Hezbollah source confirmed to Al Jazeera that the Thursday attack was the second major one in two days, which was launched in retaliation to the killing of Muhammed Nimah Nasser in Southern Lebanon on Wednesday.
According to the news portal, Nasser was the third high-ranking official killed in almost nine months of cross-border fighting that broke out after Israel's offensive in Gaza. The death of Nasser, also known as "Hajj Abu Nimah", triggered the Hezbollah launch of more than 100 rockets at Israel on Wednesday.
The militant group has sent exploding drones into many military bases in northern Israel and the occupied Syrian Golan Heights. The attack on Thursday was one of the largest, and tensions between the two sides are soaring.
Meanwhile, the Israeli military also issued a statement on the development. It said that its forces were striking launch posts of the rockets by Hezbollah in southern Lebanon. Numerous projectiles and suspicious aerial targets crossed the Lebanon borders into Israel territory, and most of them were intercepted, it said. According to the statement, there were fires in different places that were hit by the rockets.
When a vehicle with Israeli troops was hit, two buildings in Israeli territory were also sustained direct hit, one in Acre and another in the north of the city, Israeli media reported. Two were reportedly taken to hospital in northern Israel but with minor injuries.
The military then said that seventeen alerts were heard from different parts of northern Israel, from Nahariya in the west to Golan in the east, in 90 minutes.