Hezbollah targets Israeli settlements with barrages of rockets

Sunday, 08 September 2024 6:44 AM [ Last Update: Sunday, 08 September 2024 6:44 AM ]

Lebanon's Hezbollah resistance fighters stand near Katyusha rockets. (File photo)

The Hezbollah resistance movement has fired heavy barrages of rockets toward settlements in the northern part of the occupied Palestinian territories in retaliation for Israel’s deadly attacks on Lebanon.

In statements released on Sunday, Hezbollah said that it has twice targeted the settlement of Kiryat Shmona with Falaq rockets.

The resistance group also noted that it had fired Katyusha rockets toward the Shamir settlement.

Israeli media reported there were no injuries in the Hezbollah strikes, however, they said, some rockets had impacted their targets and caused damage.

Hezbollah said that it had conducted the attacks in support of “steadfast Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip and in support of their brave and honorable resistance” against Israel.

The raids, it added, came in response to the enemy’s attacks on Lebanon’s “southern villages and safe homes, especially the horrific massacre in the town of Froun.”

On Saturday, an Israel airstrike killed three Lebanese emergency workers and injured two others as they tried to contain a fire in Froun.

Three Lebanese civil defense members killed in Israeli attack

Lebanon’s health ministry says three emergency personnel have been killed and two others were wounded in an Israeli attack on a civil defense team putting out fires in southern Lebanon.

The Lebanese Health Ministry said the aerial assault underscores the “barbaric and aggressive intentions” of the Israeli enemy, which “persists in carrying out violations prohibited by international law, leaving no space for humanitarian missions that are normally permitted even in the most brutal and devastating wars.”

Separately, Lebanon’s caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati denounced the strike as “a blatant violation of international law and a blatant aggression against human values.”

The Israeli regime has been staging numerous sporadic attacks against southern Lebanon since October 7, 2023, when it launched a genocidal war on the Gaza Strip.

Hezbollah has launched a series of strikes against Israeli positions in retaliation for the regime’s aggression against Lebanon and in solidarity with Palestinians in the besieged Gaza.

Hezbollah has vowed to keep up its reprisal operations as long as the occupying regime continues its brutal Gaza onslaught, which has so far killed at least 40,939 Palestinians, mostly women and children, and injured 94,616 others.