Hezbollah fires at least 50 rockets at Israel

KABUL (Pajhwok): Hezbollah has fired at least 50 rockets at northern Israel, a media report said on Sunday.

The group fired the projectiles from Lebanon towards upper Galilee overnight, Sky News reported.

In a statement claiming responsibility for the strike, Hezbollah made clear it was not in response to the assassination of their senior commander.

The outfit said the barrage was a response to Israeli strikes which killed civilians in two villages in the south of Lebanon.

Hezbollah's statement read: "In support of steadfast Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip and …  their valiant and honourable resistance, and in response to the Israeli enemy's attacks on the steadfast southern villages and safe homes, especially the attacks that targeted the villages of Kafr Kila and Deir Siryan and injured civilians, the Islamic Resistance included the new settlement of Beit Hillel in its fire schedule and bombarded it for the first time with dozens of Katyusha rockets."

Following the death of Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran and the fear of a wider conflict in the Middle East, various international airlines have suspended flights to Lebanon and Israel.

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