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Hezbollah fired early on August 4 dozens of “Katyusha” rockets at northern Israel, targeting the settlement of Beit Hillel for the first time since the start of the ongoing confrontation.
The attack was carried out in support of the Palestinian people and resistance in the Gaza Strip as well as in response to Israeli strikes that targeted the southern Lebanese towns of Kfarkela and Deir Seryan a day earlier, the group said in a statement. In Deir Seryan, a civilian was killed.
The IDF said that Hezbollah fired at least 30 rockets at Beit Hillel, with several intercepted by Iron Dome air defense systems and others landing in open areas. The attack caused material losses, but there were no casualties by Hebrew media.
In response, Israeli fighter jets struck the launcher used in the attack in the southern Lebanese town of Marjayoun, along with other Hezbollah infrastructure in the area, according to the IDF. Lebanese media didn’t report no casualties.
Hezbollah and its allies in Lebanon have been launching attacks against the IDF in support of the Hamas Movement and other factions in Gaza since the start of the Israeli war on the Strip last October.
The latest rocket attack came as Israel is preparing for a possible response by Hezbollah to the killing of the group’s senior commander Fuad Shukr. Five civilians and an advisor from Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps were killed along with Shukr in an Israeli strike that hit the suburb of the Lebanese capital, Beirut, on July 30.
So far, the confrontation has resulted in 25 civilian deaths in Israel and the occupied Golan as well as the deaths of at least 21 soldiers and security officers. On the Lebanese side, more than 600 people have been killed, including 370 fighters of Hezbollah and over 100 civilians.
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is this a joke or what?
do you eat cap’n crunch late at night?
those launchers must have no guidance or whatsoever. that should be used to saturate zios air defenses then iran should follow up with their precision munitions.