The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) confirmed that Hezbollah fired 30 rockets from Lebanon into northern Israel early on Monday, but there were no reports of casualties.
An IDF spokesman said: “After a siren was sounded in northern Israel not long ago, it was discovered that approximately 30 artillery shells were flying from Lebanon towards the Kabri area, some of which landed in open areas.” “No injuries were reported.”
Hezbollah fighters form a human wall during the funeral procession of slain top Hezbollah commander Fouad Shukr on August 1, 2024 in the southern suburbs of Beirut. (KHALED DESOUKI/AFP via Getty Images)
The attack comes amid expectations that Iran and its proxies in the region will retaliate against Israel for its assassination of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran late last month.
Fighting between Hezbollah militants in Lebanon and Israeli forces in the north has intensified in recent weeks, raising concerns that the month-long conflict in Gaza will spread.
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Hezbollah late last month confirmed the death of its “number two” commander, Faud Shukr, who was involved in the 1983 bombing of a Marine barracks in Beirut that killed 241 US military personnel.
The IDF attack was in response to an attack in Israel’s Golan Heights that killed more than a dozen young people, but Hezbollah continues to deny involvement in that attack and the IDF identified Shukr as the mastermind behind the attack.
A worker uses a backhoe to move a building damaged by an Israeli airstrike as he walks through the rubble in a southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, on Tuesday night. (AP/Hussein Malla)
Meanwhile, U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has ordered a missile submarine to the Middle East and asked the USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier strike group to move to the region faster, the Defense Department said on Sunday.
The United States and other allies are pushing for a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas that could help calm rising tensions in the region following the assassinations of Haniyeh and Shoukr.
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Pentagon press secretary Maj. Gen. Pat Ryder said in a statement that Austin spoke with Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Galant earlier in the day and reiterated the United States’ commitment “to take all possible steps to defend Israel and Noting the “strengthening of U.S. military power” posture and capabilities across the Middle East in light of rising regional tensions. “
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
