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Reacting with Rockets, Hezbollah Declares an ‘Open-Ended Struggle’ with Israel.
(VOR News) – Hezbollah fired 100 rockets early Sunday across northern Israel to respond to hundreds of Lebanon attacks. Some of the rockets landed near Haifa. A Hezbollah leader predicted a “open-ended battle” as both sides prepared to combat.
Israel killed a veteran and many Hezbollah officers in Lebanon, and an extraordinary communications equipment hit sparked the nocturnal missile barrage. From northern Israel’s air raid sirens, hundreds of thousands hid.
At least three people were injured when one hit a residential building in Kiryat Bialik, near Haifa, igniting cars and buildings. Magen David Adom was hurt four. Avi Vazana, his wife, and 9-month-old fled to a bunker before the missile. Upon returning outdoors, he was checked for injuries.
Running barefoot or shirtless. He claimed, “I ran to this house when everything was on fire to find other people.” The Lebanon Health Ministry reported three civilian deaths and four injuries from Israeli border strikes.
Hezbollah answers to historic blows
Rocket attacks followed an Israeli airstrike Friday in Beirut that killed at least 45 people, including Hezbollah leader Ibrahim Akil, fighters, women, and children.
Several days earlier, Hezbollah had been hit by a sophisticated attack that resulted in the destruction of thousands of pagers and walkie-talkies. In order to avoid starting a war by bombing deeper into Israel, we must balance bombing deeper into Israeli neighbourhoods and infrastructure with avoiding large-scale civilian attacks.
Hezbollah deputy commander Naim Kassem called the rocket launch a war with Israel on Sunday.
Pain exists. We are humans. You’ll suffer like us, Kassem told Akil’s funeral attendees. He warned of “from outside the box” rocket strikes but claimed Hezbollah will defend Gaza by fighting Israel.
Netanyahu pledged to protect the north and enable relocation.
The nation cannot accept city rocketing. We can’t tolerate it either, he said. Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi told reporters, “We have many capabilities that we have not yet activated.” Army pressure on Hezbollah is imminent.
Others were buried Sunday for airstrike victims. Mays al-Jabal, southern Lebanon, buried seven people—three mothers and two children. Lebanese Christian senator Melhem Khalaf stated Israel “relies on the laws of the jungle instead of international conventions, especially with protecting civilians.”
White House national security spokeswoman John Kirby told ABC’s “This Week” of the U.S.’s “extensive and quite assertive diplomacy.” He continued, “We want to make sure we can continue to do everything we can to try to prevent this from becoming an all-out war there with Hezbollah across that Lebanese border.”
Israel claims to have stopped a massive Hezbollah attack.
Israeli forces hit 400 terrorist sites, including rocket launchers, in southern Lebanon in 24 hours, preventing a greater strike. Lt. Col. Nadav Shoshani said “Hundreds of thousands of civilians have come under fire across a lot of northern Israel”. Fire entered Israel today.” The military intercepted many drones after Iran-backed Iraqi Islamists claimed a drone hit on Israel.
The Health Ministry stated all northern Israeli hospitals would transfer to safe sites if school was postponed.
Al-Jazeera’s West Bank bureau, suspended this year, was raided by Israeli forces for supporting militants. Jazeera denied it.
Regional disaster, says UN ambassador.
Since the Gaza war began over a year ago, Hezbollah has supplied Hamas and the Palestinians with rockets. Low-level violence has killed scores in Israel, hundreds in Lebanon, and displaced tens of thousands across the border.
Hezbollah hasn’t struck Tel Aviv or civilian infrastructure, and neither side sought conflict until recently. In recent weeks, Israel has emphasised Lebanon above Gaza. It’s unlikely that Hisbollah will stop striking if the Gaza war stops.
Hamas’ Oct. 7 raid on Israel killed 1,200 and took 250, starting the Gaza War. A third of their 100 hostages may die. Around 41,000 Palestinians died, according to the Gaza Health Ministry. Over half of the deceased were women and children, despite not mentioning how many had fought.
“With the region on the brink of a catastrophe, there is NO military solution that will make either side safer,” UN Lebanon envoy Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert said on X.
The Lebanon conflict worries Gazan and Israeli prisoner families.
The heightened tensions with Hezbollah worry me because they could misdirect the public’s and the world’s attention, said Udi Goren, a relative of Israeli Tal Haimi, who was assassinated Oct. 7 and taken out.
Gaza-displaced Palestinian Enas Kollab shared these concerns. “We are afraid that the situation in Lebanon will affect us — that all attention will turn to Lebanon and we will be forgotten,” she said.
Hezbollah claims new weapons.
Hezbollah fired hundreds of Fadi 1 and 2 missiles at Ramat David airbase southeast of Haifa in retaliation to repeated Israeli attacks that devastated multiple Lebanese neighbourhoods and killed several civilians.
July saw the group release drone-based surveillance footage.
Hezbollah attacked Rafael’s defence business facilities in Haifa after the wireless device strike. The Israeli military declined comment and provided no proof.
Hezbollah pledged retaliation after pager and walkie-talkie bombs on Tuesday and Wednesday killed 37, including two children, and wounded 3,000. Israel was accused of the strikes without admitting guilt.
SOURCE: AP
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