War in Gaza: Lebanese Hezbollah launches dozens of rockets into northern Israel

Exchanges of fire have been almost daily between the Israeli army and Hezbollah, an ally of Palestinian Hamas, since the start of the war in Gaza.

This Sunday, March 10, the Lebanese Islamist movement Hezbollah announced that it had launched dozens of rockets on a town in northern Israel after strikes the day before that left five people dead, including three members of the party.

Smoke rises in northern Israel following a rocket attack from southern Lebanon, Tuesday, February 27, 2024. AP - Ariel Schalit

By: RFI with AFP

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Tensions are increasing between

Lebanon

 and

Israel

.

Hezbollah

said it had launched “dozens of katyousha-type rockets” on the Meron, eight kilometers from the border, in

the

morning

.

This agricultural village is home to a major military air traffic control base that

the pro-Iranian party has targeted

several times since the start of the year.

The formation said it had acted "

in response to Israeli attacks against villages in the south and the homes of civilians

", notably the attack which targeted the house of a party fighter in Kherbet Selm the day before.

A woman and another person were also killed in this strike, according to the official Lebanese agency Ani.

Read alsoLebanon: the damage caused by the war in Gaza is growing

Thirty-five launches from Lebanon

“

Approximately 35 launches from Lebanon have been identified towards Israeli territory, a certain number of which were intercepted

,” the Israeli army indicated on Sunday March 10.

The statement added that the Israeli air force targeted several

party “

infrastructures ” during the night, including “

a military structure where Hezbollah terrorists were identified, in Kherbet Selm

.”

Since the start of cross-border violence on October 8, at least 312 people, most of them Hezbollah fighters and 53 civilians, have been killed in Lebanon, according to an AFP tally.

In Israel, ten soldiers and seven civilians died.

Tens of thousands of residents have fled the border area.

Hezbollah repeats that it 

will only stop its attacks with a ceasefire in Gaza

.

Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant recently warned that a possible truce in Gaza would not undermine Israel's "

objective

" of pushing Hezbollah from its northern border, by force or diplomacy. .

Also read: Israel-Hezbollah: the intelligence war

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