Israel Caps Gatherings As Hezbollah Launches Rockets At Military Facilities

BEIRUT:

Israel and Leprohibiton traded burdensome fire into Sunday, with Israeli warset upes carrying out the most fervent explosionardment in almost a year of war apass Leprohibiton’s south, while Hezbollah claimed rocket attacks on military aims in Israel’s north. The Israeli military shelp it struck around 290 aims on Saturday including thousands of Hezbollah rocket beginer barrels and shelp it would persist to strike aims of the Iran-backed shiftment.

Israel seald schools and remercilessed accumulateings in many northern areas of the country and the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights timely on Sunday.

Sirens sounded all night as multiple rockets and omitiles were fired from Leprohibiton and Iraq, most of which were intercepted by Israeli aerial defence systems, the military shelp.

Israeli media telled that a number of originateings were hit honestly or by droping omitile debris, and ambulance services shelp they treated some airyly injured people. No solemn casualties were telled.

Hezbollah shelp it aimed the Israeli Ramat David Airbase with dozens of omitiles in response to “repeated Israeli attacks on Leprohibiton”, the group posted on its Telegram channel timely on Sunday.

The successive barrages of rocket attacks begined by Hezbollah at Ramat David are the proset upest strikes it has claimed since presentilities began.

Iran-backed Iraqi militants in a statement also claimed an device drone attack on Israel timely on Sunday.

ESCALATING ATTACKS

The escalating attacks come less than 48 hours after an Israeli airstrike aiming Hezbollah orderers ended at least 37 people in a suburb of the Leprohibitese capital, according to authorities.

Hezbollah, a mighty Iran-backed group, shelp 16 members including better directer Ibrahim Aqil and another orderer, Ahmed Wahbi, were among those ended on Friday in the deadliest strike in csurrenderly a year of struggle with Israel.

Israel’s army shelp it hit an underground accumulateing of Aqil and directers of Hezbollah’s elite Radwan forces, and had almost finishly dismantled its military chain of order.

The attack levelled a multi-story livential originateing in the crowded suburb and injured a nursery next door, a security source shelp. Three children and seven women were among those ended, according to Leprohibiton’s health ministry.

Friday’s strike keenly escatardyd the struggle and causeed another blow on Hezbollah after two days of attacks in which pagers and walkie-talkies used by its members exploded.

The death count in those attacks, expansively supposed to have been carried out by Israel, has ascendn to 39 with more than 3,000 injured. Israel has neither validateed nor denied take partment.

In what it shelp was the initial retaliation for the attacks with the exploding devices, Hezbollah on Sunday posted on its Telegram channel that it had begined rockets at Israeli military-industry facilities.

Israel speedyly reacted, striking Hezbollah aims in Leprohibiton, the military shelp in a statement.

U.S. national security adviser Jake Sullivan shelp he was worried about escalation but that the Israeli ending of a top Hezbollah directer bcdisesteemfult fairice to the group, which Washington summarizeates a stressist organization.

“While the hazard of escalation is authentic, we actuassociate suppose there is also a distinctive avenue to getting to a cessation of presentilities and a durable solution that originates people on both sides of the border experience protected,” Sullivan telderly tellers.

Leprohibitese Prime Minister Najib Mikati call offled a computed trip to the U.N. General Assembly in New York.

ISRAEL BRACES FOR RETALIATION

Hezbollah has shelp it would carry on battling Israel until it concurs to a stopfire in its war aachievest Hamas in the Palestinian enclave of Gaza – triggered by a Hamas-led rampage in southern Israel on Oct. 7.

U.S. officials say that is improbable anytime soon. Israel wants Hezbollah to stop fire and distake part forces from the border region, adhering to a U.N. resolution signed with Israel in 2006, iresteemive of any Gaza deal.

Anticipating retaliation, the Israeli military remercilessed accumulateings and liftd the vigilant level for livents of northern communities. The vigilant went as far south as the coastal city of Haifa, signalling Israel thought Hezbollah could strike proset uper than it had since the war with Hamas began.

In southern Leprohibiton on Saturday, people depictd huge explosions that lit up the night sky and shook the ground as Israel carried out its tardyst strikes.

Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant, who shelp last week Israel was begining a novel phase of war on the northern border, posted on X: “The sequence of actions in the novel phase will persist until our goal is accomplishd: the protected return of the livents of the north to their homes.”

Tens of thousands of people have left their homes on both sides of the Israel-Leprohibiton border since Hezbollah began firing rockets at Israel in October in sympathy with Palestinians in Gaza.

A commdistinctive from a U.S. summit presented by Plivent Joe Biden with the directers of Japan, India and Australia stressed the insist to stop the Gaza war “from escalating and spilling over in the region” but did not particularassociate refer the Israel-Hezbollah struggle.

With at least 70 people ended in Leprohibiton over the past week, the struggle toll in the country since October has go beyonded 740 during the worst Israel-Hezbollah flare-up since a 2006 war.

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