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Hezbollah on Sunday said it fired dozens of rockets into northern Israel after Israeli strikes the day before left five dead in southern Leb
...an Iranian satrapy currently ruled by Hassan Nasrallah situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozen flavors of Christians, plus Armenians, Georgians, and who knows what else? It is the home of the original Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers...
, including three of the group's members.
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...not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,...ally Hezbollah and its arch-foe Israel have been exchanging near-daily fire across the border since the Israel-Hamas war broke out on October 7.
Hezbollah said it launched "dozens of katyusha-type rockets" in the morning on the Israeli village of Meron, eight kilometers from the border.
Meron is home to a major air control base that the Iran-backed group has targeted several times since the start of the year.
Hezbollah said it acted "in response to Israeli attacks against villages in the south and the homes of civilians," particularly the targeting of the home of a fighter in Khirbet Selm the day before.
A woman and another person were also killed in the same strike, according to Lebanon's official National News Agency.
"Following the sirens that sounded in northern Israel, approximately 35 launches from Lebanon toward Israeli territory were identified, a number of which were intercepted," the Israeli army said on Sunday.
The statement added that the Israeli air force struck Hezbollah infrastructure during the night, including a "military structure in which Hezbollah Death Eaters were identified in the area of Khirbet Selm."
At least 312 people have been killed in Lebanon since the start of cross-border violence on October 8, most of them Hezbollah fighters but also including 53 civilians, according to an AFP tally.
On the Israeli side, 10 soldiers and seven civilians have been killed, according to the latest official figures.
Tens of thousands of people have been displaced by the fighting on both sides of the border.
Strikes have largely remained confined to border regions for the moment, but several have hit Hezbollah positions further north in recent weeks, raising fears of a full-blown conflict.
The group has repeatedly said that it will only stop its attacks on Israel with a ceasefire in Gazoo
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But Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant said recently that any truce in Gaza would not change Israel's goal of pushing Hezbollah away from the border, by force or diplomacy.
| The report from the Times of Israel: |
Hezbollah fired several volleys of rockets at northern Israel on Sunday, after an Israeli
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the previous night in Leb
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According to the Israel Defense Forces, some 37 rockets were fired from Lebanon at the Mount Meron area on Sunday morning. There were no reports of injuries or damage in the attack. In the first barrage of 30 rockets, one projectile was intercepted by the Iron Dome air defense system, and in the second barrage minutes later, seven rockets were fired, with six of them being successfully downed, the IDF said.
Hezbollah grabbed credit for the attack, saying it fired dozens of Katyusha rockets at the town of Meron. It did not claim to have targeted the IDF’s nearby Mount Meron air traffic control base, which Hezbollah has fired missiles at previously. Footage posted to social media showed several rockets striking the mountainside.
The terror group said the barrages were a response to the deaths of civilians in an Israeli strike in southern Lebanon’s Khirbet Selm on Saturday night. Five members of one family were reported killed in the strike. Hezbollah announced that three of them, Jaafar Marji, Ali Marji, and Hassan Marji, were members of the terror group.
| So not innocent civilian bystanders after all? How unexpected. |
Later Sunday, Hezbollah fired additional barrages of dozens of rockets at the Mount Hermon and Mount Dov regions on the border, causing no injuries.
Also Sunday, the IDF said an anti-tank missile fired from Lebanon at the Malkia area struck a military vehicle, causing damage but no injuries.
In another incident, a Hezbollah drone crashed in an open area in the Mount Hermon region, causing no damage or injuries according to the IDF.
Meanwhile, the IDF said it struck and killed a Hezbollah anti-tank missile squad in southern Lebanon’s Chebaa on Sunday. The cell was spotted by soldiers monitoring surveillance cameras, who called in an airstrike before it managed to carry out an attack, the IDF said.
IDF DRILLS FOR LEBANON GROUND OFFENSIVE
On Sunday, the IDF announced that over the past week, the military had carried out a logistics supply drill as part of its preparations for a potential ground offensive in Lebanon.
In the exercise, forces practiced delivering equipment, water, fuel, and ammunition to simulated “maneuvering forces” in Lebanon amid potential fighting, the IDF said.
The IDF said the drill included “loading and unloading equipment from Air Force aircraft and transporting equipment using vehicles on the ground” to the front lines.
So far, during the war in the Gaza Strip, the Israeli Air Force has carried out airdrops of some 110 tons of equipment to troops, according to the IDF. Thousands more logistical supply operations were carried out using convoys of trucks.
“The IDF is prepared to carry out identical operations in the northern sector as well, with high intensity and under fire if required,” the military said.
So far, the skirmishes on the border have resulted in seven civilian deaths on the Israeli side, as well as the deaths of 10 IDF soldiers and reservists. There have also been several attacks from Syria, without any injuries.
Hezbollah has named 241 members who have been killed by Israel during the ongoing skirmishes, mostly in Lebanon but some also in Syria. In Lebanon, another 37 operatives from other terror groups, a Lebanese soldier, and at least 30 civilians, three of whom were journalists, have been killed.
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