Hezbollah fires over 200 rockets into Israel after killing of senior commander
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- čas přidán 8. 07. 2024
- (4 Jul 2024)
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Marjayoun, Lebanon - 04 July 2024
1. Rockets being fired from southern Lebanon towards Israel
2. Smoke following an Israeli airstrike
3. Various of fire in Chebaa following Israeli bombs
4. Various of civil defence trying to extinguish fire
5. Civil defence worker holding up turtle to wash with water
6. Various of burned trees and land
STORYLINE:
The Lebanese Hezbollah group said it launched over 200 rockets on Thursday at several military bases in Israel in retaliation for a strike that killed one of its senior commanders.
The attack by the Iran-backed militant group was one of the largest in the monthslong conflict along the Lebanon-Israel border, with tensions escalating in recent weeks.
The Israeli military said “numerous projectiles and suspicious aerial targets” had entered its territory from Lebanon, many of which it said were intercepted. There were no immediate reports of casualties.
It said about 200 “projectiles” were launched toward the occupied Syrian Golan Heights and over 20 drones into Israeli territory, but that it had intercepted some of them.
Israel after Hezbollah’s attack struck various towns in southern Lebanon. The Israeli military said it struck Hezbollah’s “military structures” in the southern border towns of Ramyeh and Houla.
Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency reported an Israeli drone strike of Houla killed at least one person. Israeli jets also broke the sound barrier over the Lebanese capital and other areas in the country.
Israel on Wednesday acknowledged that it had killed Mohammad Naameh Nasser, who headed one of Hezbollah’s three regional divisions in southern Lebanon, a day earlier.
Hours after the killing, Hezbollah launched scores of Katyusha rockets and Falaq rockets with heavy warheads into northern Israel and the occupied Syrian Golan Heights. It launched more rockets on Thursday and said it had also sent exploding drones into several bases.
Nasser was of great importance to Hezbollah, which said he took part in battles in conflicts in Syria and Iraq from 2011 until 2016 and fought in the group’s last war with Israel in 2006. Two other senior Hezbollah commanders have also been killed.
The U.S. and France are continuing to scramble to prevent the skirmishes from spiralling into an all-out war, which they fear could spill-over across the region. Washington in its shuttle diplomatic efforts initially hoped for calm along the Lebanon-Israel border in a deal that is not linked to the war in Gaza.
However, since the U.S. has called for Hamas to agree to a cease-fire proposal presented by President Joe Biden, it has said that an end to the war in Gaza would lead to calm in Lebanon and northern Israel as well.
The fighting has displaced tens of thousands of people on both sides of the border. In northern Israel, 16 soldiers and 11 civilians have been killed. In Lebanon, more than 450 people - mostly fighters but also dozens of civilians - have been killed.
Israel sees Hezbollah as its most direct threat and estimates that it has an arsenal of 150,000 rockets and missiles, including precision-guided missiles.
In 2006, Israel and Hezbollah fought a monthlong war that ended in a draw.
AP video by Ramiz Dallah
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Israeli colonies are occupying Lebanon. Liberation forces have the right to liberate their land..
you are pathetic and weak. your keyboard warrior for evil.
How many senior commanders does Hezbollah have?
Do they get senior discount over the too?
Why over empty land? Something about this doesn’t seem quite right…
P R O P A G A N DUH 🤡👎
Never actually showed a missile or rockets hitting anything. Just empty areas that had been on fire at some point. Are these videos new or repurposed footage?
All of the wars need to stop period! Some of these people won't be happy until they themselves have nothing or no one left.
Birds chirping for peace.
Children and mothers crying.
War machines bring none.
We have a lot of commander who can Lead advance military tactics to defeated illegal false state.
They shot at farmland?
So if you guys are trying to justify the actions of Hasbulla, are you not also then justifying the actions of Israel defending itself yeah, always got to go back to who started all of this
@@user-cw9kq7wq6z Israel behind all terrorism in the world
@@user-cw9kq7wq6z you're trying to justify the actions of 40,000 killed innocent people by the terrorist groups what's called Israel like nothing had happened, I was born in Palestine and I had to move to America and my dream is to go back to Palestine the free Palestine
Stolen land never se pieace
Actually if you want to get real instead of your fake talking points Israel was jewsish for centuries. Long before islam was even a thought.
Israel has been inhabited by Jews for thousands of years. You're a real stupid racist, huh?
@@douglasmaxwell1767Ismael the son of Abraham was in Palestine way before Israel existed and he's the father of all Arabs and he died in Palestine
Anywhere there is islam there is no peace.
@@anediareese I said Ismael the son of Abraham, BTW Abraham is Muslim