Hezbollah fires 200 rockets into Israel after commander killed | Israel-Palestine battle Information

Huge barrage launched in response to killing of armed group’s senior commander as fears of full-blown battle reverberate.

Lebanon’s Hezbollah says it launched greater than 200 rockets and drones focusing on Israeli army positions in response to a strike that killed a senior commander of the armed group.

A Hezbollah supply confirmed Thursday’s barrage to Al Jazeera – the second main assault in two days – launched in retaliation for the killing of Muhammad Nimah Nasser in southern Lebanon a day earlier.

Nasser, also referred to as “Hajj Abu Nimah”, was the third high-ranking official killed in nearly 9 months of cross-border preventing that erupted after Israel launched its battle on Gaza. His dying prompted Hezbollah to launch greater than 100 rockets into Israel on Wednesday.

The assault on Thursday was one of many largest thus far alongside the Lebanon-Israel border as tensions skyrocket with the group sending exploding drones at a number of army bases in northern Israel and the occupied Syrian Golan Heights.

The Israeli army stated its forces had been “placing launch posts in southern Lebanon” after “quite a few projectiles and suspicious aerial targets crossed from Lebanon into Israeli territory”, most of which had been intercepted.

It stated “fires broke out in various areas in northern Israel” following the assaults.

Israeli media reported a automobile with Israeli troops inside was hit by a projectile. There have been reportedly two direct strikes on two buildings, one in Acre and one other north of town. Ambulance service Magen David Adom stated two girls had been taken to hospital in northern Israel with gentle accidents.

Seventeen alerts had been sounded over 90 minutes in numerous elements of the northern area, from Nahariya within the west to Golan within the east, based on the army.

Wider battle fears develop

The uptick in preventing and charged rhetoric between Hezbollah and Israeli officers has despatched United States, European, and Arab mediators scrambling to stop a wider regional conflagration.

Hezbollah says it’s placing Israel in solidarity with Palestinian armed group Hamas, which attacked southern Israel on October 7, killing at the least 1,139 individuals and taking about 250 others captive.

In response, Israel launched a no-limits assault on Gaza that has killed greater than 38,000 individuals – principally youngsters and ladies – forcibly displaced about two million others a number of instances, and laid waste to the long-besieged coastal enclave.

Now, as tensions with Hezbollah spike, Israeli officers say they might go to battle in Lebanon if efforts for a diplomatic resolution fail.

Estimates counsel border clashes have thus far killed at the least 496 individuals in Lebanon, principally fighters but in addition 95 civilians. Israeli authorities say at the least 15 troopers and 11 civilians have died.

Rami Khouri, a political analyst from the American College of Beirut, stated whereas Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu continues to thump the drums of battle with Hezbollah, its army is unprepared for a second entrance.

“Netanyahu, particularly, retains saying we’re going to assault Lebanon. We’re going to destroy Hezbollah. However they don’t have the capability to try this whereas they’re nonetheless preventing a battle in Gaza,” Khouri informed Al Jazeera.

He instructed a Gaza ceasefire is the absolute best situation for Israel. “Hezbollah has stated many instances: ‘We are going to cease attacking Israel if Israel stops attacking Gaza.’”

Stephane Dujarric, spokesman for United Nations chief Antonio Guterres, stated on Wednesday he’s “very fearful in regards to the escalation of the change of fireplace” between Hezbollah and Israel.

He warned of the potential dangers to the area as an entire if it had been to seek out itself in a “full-fledged battle”.