BEIRUT – The militant Hezbollah group fired greater than 50 rockets at army posts in northern Israel on Thursday, an afternoon after an Israeli airstrike on a house in southern Lebanon killed 5 of the staff’s senior fighters.
The waves of rockets despatched over the border represented one of the maximum intense bombardments since Hezbollah began attacking Israeli posts in the nation’s north at the starting of the Israel-Hamas war.
Hezbollah has stated that via heating up its movements on the Israel-Lebanon border, it’s easing power (*5*), the place Israel’s crushing aerial, floor and naval offensive has left greater than 13,300 Palestinians useless and brought about broad destruction in the sealed-off enclave.
The struggle was once prompted via an Oct. 7 Hamas assault on southern Israel that left about 1,200 other people useless, maximum of them civilians, and ended in about 240 hostages getting taken to Gaza.
An settlement for a four-day cease-fire in Gaza and the liberate of dozens of hostages held via the militants and Palestinians imprisoned via Israel, was once set to happen Thursday however gave the impression to have hit a last-minute snag.
Hezbollah stated in a chain of statements launched Thursday that the volleys it fired towards Israeli posts integrated 48 Katyusha rockets that have been directed at an Israeli military base in Beit Zeitem, about 10 kilometers (6 miles) south of the border.
The staff stated its fighters additionally struck tanks and places the place Israeli troops have been taking positions.
The intense hearth adopted an Israeli airstrike on a space in Beit Yahoun, a village in southern Lebanon, that killed the 5 senior fighters, together with Abbas Raad, the son of the head of Hezbollah’s 13-member parliamentary bloc in Lebanon, Mohammed Raad.
The deaths deliver the quantity of Hezbollah fighters who’ve been killed in seven weeks of combating to at least 83.
Hezbollah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah met in Beirut in Thursday with Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian. They mentioned the ongoing struggle in Gaza and efforts to “stop the Israeli aggression,” in addition to the state of affairs at the worrying Lebanon-Israel border, consistent with a commentary launched via Hezbollah.
Amirabdollahian warned in feedback to newshounds upon his arrival in Lebanon Wednesday that the ongoing Israel-Hamas struggle may just “spiral out of control” if a truce does now not final.
Iran-backed factions in Iraq, together with the militant staff Kataib Hezbollah, have performed greater than 60 and rocket or suicide drone assaults at bases housing U.S. troops in Iraq and Syria. Kataib Hezbollah is allied with Lebanon’s Hezbollah however the teams have other leaders.
The U.S. army stated Thursday that one of its warships in the Red Sea shot down bomb-carrying drones introduced from territory managed via Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi rebels.
The American army’s Central Command stated the USS Thomas Hudner, an Arleigh Burke-class destroyer, shot down the drones early Thursday morning. “The ship and crew sustained no damage or injury,” Central Command stated.
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