Hezbollah says targets several Israeli sites following strikes on Lebanon

Hezbollah it targeted several sites in northern Israel including military production facilities in retaliation for intense Israeli strikes on south and east Lebanon.

“In response to the Israeli enemy attacks that targeted the south and Bekaa areas,” Hezbollah fighters bombed north Israel military positions as well as the “Rafael defense industry complexes” north of the city of Haifa, the group said in a statement.

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Israel unleashed its most widespread wave of airstrikes against Hezbollah on Monday and warned Lebanese citizens to evacuate areas where the armed group was storing weapons, moving closer to all-out war.

Israel’s military pounded Hezbollah targets in south and east Lebanon Monday and said more strikes were coming, warning Lebanese to stay out of harm’s way despite international calls for restraint.

After nearly a year of tit-for-tat cross-border fire between Hezbollah and Israeli forces, the strikes since the weekend are the most intense since the outbreak of war between Israel and Palestinian Hamas militants in the Gaza Strip last October 7.

Israel said more than 300 Hezbollah sites had been targeted on Monday in dozens of strikes.

Israel military spokesman Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari made a first of its kind appeal to people in Lebanon, telling them to avoid potential targets linked to Hezbollah as strikes would “go on for the near future.”

Hezbollah, a powerful Iran-backed political and military force in Lebanon, says it is acting in “support” of Hamas, another group backed by Tehran.

With AFP

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