The Lebanese Islamist movement Hezbollah announced this Sunday that it had fired “dozens” of rockets into northern Israel in retaliation for an air raid blamed on the Israeli army that killed four people from the same family.
Hezbollah said in a statement that it had fired “dozens of Katyusha and Falaq rockets” at Kiryat Shmona, in northern Israel, “in response to the horrible crime that the Israeli enemy committed in Mays al-Jabal.” , which he said killed and injured civilians.
Since the start of the war in Gaza, Lebanese Hezbollah, an ally of Palestinian Hamas, has exchanged fire almost daily with the Israeli army on the Lebanese-Israeli border. Palestinian factions and other allied groups have also claimed attacks from Lebanon against Israel.
The official Lebanese News Agency (ANI) earlier reported that “three civilians died and several were injured in the Israeli air force raid.” The head of the Mays al-Jabal municipality, Abdelmoneim Choukeir, confirmed the Israeli raid in this sector and reported “a couple and their little boy who were martyred in the strike”.
According to ANI, residents of the village were inspecting their homes and shops damaged in previous bombings at the time of the raid. The injured were transported to area hospitals.
On Saturday evening, Hezbollah claimed responsibility for firing on military positions in northern Israel. In nearly seven months of cross-border violence, at least 389 people, including 255 Hezbollah fighters and more than 70 civilians, have been killed in Lebanon, according to an AFP count. At least 11 Hamas fighters were killed according to the same count. On the Israeli side, 11 soldiers and nine civilians were killed, according to an official report.
