Hezbollah attacks Israel with “dozens” of rockets
Beirut (EFE).- The Lebanese Shia group Hezbollah has announced that it has launched “dozens” of rockets against a military barracks in northern Israel, in response to a bombing that occurred a few hours earlier, in which Sunnis affiliated with Jama’a Two commanders of the group were killed. Islamiya in southern Lebanon.
“Islamic resistance fighters bombed the Haboushit post and the headquarters of the Hermon 810 Brigade Command in the Ma’aleh Golani Field with dozens of ‘Katyusha’ rockets on Friday afternoon,” Hezbollah said in a brief statement.
According to the note, the attack was a response to the “cowardly murder on the Sarira Highway”.
This Friday, an Israeli drone killed two commanders of Jama’a al Islamiya while they were traveling in a vehicle on the road connecting Meidoun to Sarira in southern Lebanon, as confirmed by the Sunni group itself. Which was also involved in the current outbreak of violence. Israel.
Since last October, Hezbollah and the Jewish State have been engaged in intense firefights within the framework of the Gaza war, clashes in which other Lebanese groups with lesser military capabilities also participate to some extent.
Formations that have subsequently joined the fighting in southern Lebanon include Jama’a al-Islamiyya or the Shia militia Amal, while attacks against Israel by Palestinian factions present in Lebanese territory, including the armed wing of the Palestinian Hamas movement, have also been recorded.
While Amal is an important political ally of Hezbollah, Jama’a al-Islamiyya had no major ties to the Shia movement before the Gaza war began and is considered an ally of Hamas.