Hezbollah Fires Barrage of Rockets at Northern Israel

Hezbollah announced that it had launched a barrage of rockets at northern Israel on Thursday "in response" to a deadly Israeli raid that targeted a town in southern Lebanon, in the first attack it has launched since Israel assassinated one of its most prominent leaders "Fouad Shukr".

The Iran-backed party said in a statement that it "fired dozens of Katyusha rockets at the settlement of Metzova" in "support of the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip and in response to the Israeli enemy's attack on the town of Shamaa, which resulted in the death of a number of civilians."

In a response, the Israeli army commented on Thursday evening on the announcement by the Lebanese Hezbollah that it had launched a barrage of rockets at northern Israel.

The Israeli army said in a statement that "after the alerts were activated in the Western Galilee region, several shells were detected coming from Lebanon, some of which were intercepted and the rest fell in open areas, without causing any injuries."

The statement added: "Air Force aircraft attacked a Hezbollah launch pad from which launches were detected from the Yater area in southern Lebanon."

It continued: "Earlier today (Thursday), the Israeli army fired artillery to remove a threat in the Rmeish and Ramyeh areas in southern Lebanon."

The Lebanese Health Ministry announced on Thursday that at least four Syrians were killed in an Israeli raid on southern Lebanon, where Hezbollah and Israel have exchanged fire almost daily since the start of the war in Gaza.

The raid also wounded five Lebanese, according to the ministry.