BEIRUT — Lebanon’s Hezbollah group launched a barrage of rockets in central Israel on Monday, a day after claiming a lethal drone assault close to Haifa.
In an announcement, the Iran-backed group stated its fighters fired “a salvo of rockets” on the Beit Lid army base east of Netanya. The Israeli army stated that the rockets fired from Lebanon towards central Israel, setting off sirens within the Netanya and Wadi Ara areas, had been all intercepted.
No accidents or casualties had been reported.
Hezbollah claimed in one other assertion Monday to have launched a sequence of rockets on the Stella Maris Israeli naval base northwest of Haifa, saying the assault was “on the service” of Hassan Nasrallah, the group’s chief who was killed in an Israeli strike on Beirut’s southern suburbs final month. The Israeli army has not commented on the declare.
The newest barrages of rockets come practically two weeks after Israel started a restricted floor invasion in south Lebanon, marking a serious escalation within the warfare in Lebanon. The Israeli army has intensified its airstrikes in opposition to Hezbollah targets throughout the nation for the previous three weeks, a yr after cross-border hostilities erupted on Oct. 8, 2023.
Since then, greater than 2,300 folks have been killed in Lebanon and over 10,600 others injured, in keeping with the Lebanese Well being Ministry. The Israeli army says tons of of Hezbollah fighters and senior commanders have been killed since final yr, together with Nasrallah’s potential successor Hashem Safieddine.
On Monday, the army introduced the killing of Muhammad Kamel Naim, the commander of Hezbollah’s anti-tank missile unit inside its elite Radwan unity, in a strike within the southern metropolis of Nabatieh.
On Sunday night time, Hezbollah stated it launched a “squadron of kamikaze drones” on the Golani army base in Binyamina, south of Haifa, in retaliation for Israeli strikes in Beirut, together with one final Thursday that killed no less than 22 folks. The group added that it concurrently launched rockets to “overwhelm” Israeli air defenses.
In an announcement on Monday, the Israeli army stated 4 troopers had been killed within the drone assault on the Golani army base, the deadliest strike inside Israel in three weeks, and eight others had been significantly injured. Israel’s ambulance service, Magen David Adom, stated 61 folks had been injured.
No less than 54 folks in Israel have been killed in rocket assaults since final October, in keeping with Israeli authorities, practically half of them troopers.
