The armed wing of Palestinian Hamas claimed responsibility for rocket fire Monday from southern Lebanon towards a military position in northern Israel.
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Since the start of the war between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip, Lebanese Hezbollah has exchanged daily fire with the Israeli army on the Lebanese-Israeli border in support of the Palestinian Islamist movement. Palestinian factions and other allied groups have also claimed cross-border attacks from Lebanon.
Hamas fighters “launched a salvo of rockets from southern Lebanon towards” an Israeli military position, the Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades said in a statement on Telegram.
This salvo was “in response to the massacres of the Zionist enemy (Israel)” in the Palestinian territories of Gaza and the occupied West Bank.
The Israeli army told AFP that “around twenty shots were fired from Lebanon into Israeli territory,” adding that it intercepted most of the rockets and hit “the origin of the fire.”
“No injuries or damage were reported,” the Israeli army said.
On April 21, the armed wing of Hamas claimed responsibility for rocket fire from southern Lebanon towards northern Israel.
On January 2, a senior figure in the Palestinian movement, Saleh Arouri, was killed in a drone attack blamed on Israel on the southern suburbs of Beirut, a Hezbollah stronghold.
In nearly seven months of cross-border violence, at least 385 people, including 254 Hezbollah fighters and 73 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, 20 people including 11 soldiers and nine civilians were killed, according to the official report.
Tens of thousands of people have been displaced on both sides of the border.
