Hezbollah Launches Rockets At Israel After Deadly South Lebanon Strike

A local official and state media in Lebanon said an Israeli strike on a southern village on Sunday killed several people from the same family, with Hezbollah announcing rocket fire in retaliation.

Israel and Lebanon’s Hezbollah group have been engaged in cross-border fire since Hamas’s October attack on southern Israel sparked the Gaza conflict. The conflict has intensified in recent weeks, with Israel striking deeper into Lebanese territory and Hezbollah increasing missile and drone attacks on military positions in northern Israel. A strike in Mais al-Jabal killed “four people from a single family”, with the incident involving Israeli aircraft. Hezbollah claimed to have fired “dozens of Katyusha and Falaq rockets” at Kiryat Shmona in northern Israel in response to the Israeli enemy’s actions. The Lebanese movement has repeatedly declared that only a ceasefire in Gaza will end its attacks on Israel, which it claims are in support of Gazans and its ally Hamas. Both the United States and France have made diplomatic efforts to calm tensions on the Lebanese-Israeli border. In Lebanon, at least 390 people have been killed in nearly seven months of cross-border violence, with Israel claiming 11 soldiers and nine civilians killed on its side of the border. Tens of thousands of people have been displaced on both sides.