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Hezbollah fires 100 rockets at Israel after IDF wipes out another leader

Evelyn Blackwell7 hours ago
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Hezbollah fires 100 rockets at Israel after IDF wipes out another leader

Israel began expanding its ground offensive in southern Lebanon today – with Hezbollah responding by firing more than 100 rockets across the border.

While further north, Israeli forces carried out heavy air strikes on Beirut, its troops poured into Lebanon.

As military operations were stepped up, the Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) announced it had killed another Hezbollah chief on Monday, with a further 10 ‘targets’ hit overnight.

An IDF spokesman said Suhail Hussein Husseini played a “crucial” role in transporting weapons between Iran and Hezbollah.

Husseini was also said to have coordinated attacks against Israel by Lebanon and Syria, and was a member of the Jihad council, Hezbollah’s senior military leadership council.

He was killed in a strike on Monday ‘in the Beirut area’ as some ‘70 Hezbollah sites’ were hit, the IDF spokesman added.

Israel‘s Defence Minister Yoav Gallant said that another senior Hezbollah figure Hashem Safieddine – possibly the group’s next leader – had “probably” also been killed in a strike last week.
Overnight, Israel’s bombing of the Lebanese capital continued apace, with at least 10 explosions heard in
in Dahieh – the southern suburb of Beirut considered a Hezbollah stronghold.

The city’s mayor Abdallah Darwich said nowhere in the capital was safe any longer.

But in response, Hezbollah fired repeated barrages of rockets into northern Israel overnight, mainly targeting the city of Haifa.
The proscribed terror group also targeted Israeli artillery positions in Dishon and Dalton in northern Israel “with a rocket barrage”.
It further fired rockets at a “gathering of enemy forces” in Yir’on, another settlement in Israel‘s north, near the Lebanese border.

Also targeted were Israeli settlements further west, Hezbollah said on its English-language Telegram channel.

And late yesterday morning, a second salvo of missiles were fired by the Lebanese militants into Israel.

A spokesman for the IDF confirmed around 100 ‘projectiles’, usually meaning rockets, crossed from Lebanon into Israeli territory just after 11am local time (09:00 BST).

Many were intercepted while others fell in the Lower Galilee area, the spokesman added.

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