Lebanon|Hezbollah said the rockets were in retaliation for the pager explosions. Israel hit Lebanon hard last Saturday and says it will continue the attacks.
Israel and the Lebanon-based Shia Islamist extremist organization Hezbollah have fired heavily at each other on Saturday and early Sunday, the news agency Reuters reports.
Hezbollah says it hit military targets in northern Israel with rockets at night. Israel, on the other hand, has bombed South Lebanon the hardest in over a year and continued the attacks right away on Sunday morning.
Israeli newspaper According to Haaretz Hezbollah would have launched more than a hundred rockets towards Israel during the night “in revenge for the explosions of the paging devices”. On its own Telegram channel, Hezbollah said, according to Reuters, that it directed the attacks on the Ramat David airbase in response to “Israel’s repeated attacks on Lebanon.”
The Israeli army, on the other hand, said that it struck nearly 300 targets in Lebanon during Saturday. The army also said it intended to continue the attacks.
Smoke from an Israeli strike in Lebanon near the Israeli border on Sunday morning. The photo was taken from the direction of the southern Lebanese city of Tyros.
“There there is always a strike and a counter-strike, a retaliatory strike and a retaliatory strike,” director of the Finnish Middle East Institute Susanne Dahlgren predicts the course of events for HS on Tuesday shortly after the pager explosions.
Tuesday’s pager explosions and Wednesday’s walkie-talkie explosions killed at least 39 people and injured thousands. There are members of Hezbollah as well as civilians.
The explosions are widely believed to be Israeli security services Mossad organized by Israel has neither denied nor admitted the matter.
Israel announced early Sunday that it was closing schools in many areas of northern Israel as well as the occupied Golan Heights as a precaution.
The Israeli army announced that it had succeeded in repelling most of the rockets sent from Lebanon and Iraq towards Israel. Some of the rockets got there and damaged buildings. Damages were caused and fires also broke out from the remains of the extinguished rockets.
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