Lebanon’s Hezbollah resistance movement retaliates against a deadly Israeli attack that had earlier targeted the southern part of the country by firing dozens of rockets towards the northern side of the occupied Palestinian territories.
The retaliation that came on Sunday saw the movement firing more than 50 rockets towards the Beit Hillel settlement in the Upper Galilee region, triggering a fire there, various Israeli media outlets reported.
The movement identified the projectiles that were used in the response as “Katyusha rockets,” adding that it was the first time that it was targeting the settlement.
According to the group, the reprisal came “in response to the Israeli enemy’s attacks on the steadfast southern villages and safe homes, particularly the attacks on the villages of Kfar Kila and Deir Siryan, which resulted in civilian casualties.”
It also followed the regime’s assassination of Ali Nazih Abd Ali, a Hezbollah military official from the southwestern Lebanese town of Aitat.
The victim was killed after an Israeli drone fired three air-to-ground missiles at a car traveling on the main road in the southwestern municipality of Bazouriyeh.
The Israeli regime has been staging numerous sporadic attacks against southern Lebanon since October 7, when it launched a genocidal war on the Gaza Strip.
In its most daring attack against the country since the beginning of the Gaza war, the regime assassinated Fuad Shukr, a senior Hezbollah military commander and an advisor to the movement’s Secretary-General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, on Tuesday.
On Thursday, Nasrallah said fighting against the regime had entered “a new phase” after its assassination of Shukr and Hamas’ political leader Ismail Haniyeh, who was killed in an Israeli attack against his residence in the Iranian capital Tehran shortly after the raid that targeted the Hezbollah commander.
The regime, the Hezbollah chief said, had “crossed red lines” by carrying out the assassinations and had to expect “rage and revenge on all the fronts.”
