According to Israel, Hezbollah launched dozens of missiles in coordination with Iran in order to overwhelm air defenses. Meanwhile, Israeli strikes destroy hundreds of targets in Lebanon.
Israel’s military said on Friday it had identified a “simultaneous and coordinated” missile launch by Iran and the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah. The aim of these attacks, according to army spokesman Lt. Col. Nadav Šošani, was to overload Israeli air defenses. TASR informs about it according to AFP reports.
- The Israeli military has identified the current coordinated missile launches from Iran and Lebanon.
- The goal of the coordinated rocket attacks was to overload the Israeli air defense.
- Hezbollah from southern Lebanon fired about seventy rockets at Israel.
- Israeli attacks in Lebanon have killed two hundred and seventeen people and injured hundreds since Monday.
- Hezbollah retaliated by firing two rockets into northern Israel after Friday’s attacks.
The Šošani claim that they noticed the rockets fired on Thursday. There have been no “significant strikes” in Israel in the past 24 hours.
Hezbollah fired rockets
Hezbollah has fired about 70 rockets, most of them from southern Lebanon, toward Israel since midnight Thursday local time, according to an Israeli military spokesman. According to him, Israel hit “more than 500 targets in Lebanon and eliminated more than 70 Hezbollah terrorists” this week.
The Lebanese Ministry of Health reported that Israeli strikes have left 217 dead and 798 wounded since Monday. In its previous statement on Thursday evening, it reported 123 dead and 683 injured.
Escalation of war conflict
Hezbollah joined the war conflict that began on Saturday, February 28, with the Israeli-American attack on Iran, when, in revenge for the killing of the Iranian spiritual leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, on the night of Monday, March 2, it launched rocket and drone attacks on villages and cities in the north of Israel. In retaliation, the Israeli army launched attacks in the south of Lebanon, in the Bikaa valley and the southern suburbs of Beirut, where they destroy warehouses and Hezbollah bases.
Israel continued its attacks on Friday, hitting the south and east of Lebanon and the southern suburbs of the capital.
Retaliatory missile attacks
The al-Jazeera station reports that Hezbollah announced the launch of two rockets into northern Israel in response to Friday’s attacks.
