Lebanon: Hezbollah says it fired ‘dozens’ of rockets at Israel after three civilians were killed

Lebanese Islamist movement Hezbollah announced on Sunday that it had fired “dozens” of rockets into northern Israel in response to an air raid blamed on the Israeli army that killed three people, a couple and their child, in southern Lebanon .

Hezbollah said in a statement that it fired “dozens of Katyusha and Falak rockets” at Kiryat Shmona in northern Israel “in response to the heinous crime committed by the Israeli enemy in Mays al-Jabal, which it said “They said they were killed and killed.” civilians were injured.

Since the beginning of the war in the Gaza Strip, the Lebanese Hezbollah, an ally of the Palestinian Hamas, has exchanged fire almost daily with the Israeli army on the Lebanese-Israeli border. Palestinian factions and other allied groups also claimed Lebanese attacks on Israel.

Earlier, three people were killed in an Israeli strike.

The official Lebanese News Agency (ANI) earlier reported that “the Israeli air force raid killed three civilians and injured several others.” The head of the Mays al-Jabal municipality, Abdelmoneim Choucair, confirmed the Israeli raid in the sector and said that “the strike killed a couple and their little boy.”

According to ANI, during the raid, village residents inspected their houses and shops that had been damaged in previous explosions.

The injured were taken to area hospitals.

On Saturday evening, Hezbollah claimed responsibility for shelling military positions in northern Israel. Nearly seven months of cross-border violence in Lebanon have left at least 389 people killed, including 255 Hezbollah fighters and more than 70 civilians, according to AFP. According to the same data, at least 11 Hamas militants were killed. According to the official report, 11 soldiers and nine civilians were killed on the Israeli side.