The Israeli Regime Launches Airstrikes On S. Lebanon

(MENAFN- Nam News Network) JERUSALEM, Jul 5 (NNN-MA'AN) – The Israeli regime's army said yesterday that, it launched airstrikes on Lebanon, after the Lebanese group, Hezbollah fired at least 175 rockets, missiles and drones at northern Israel, in retaliation for an airstrike that killed one of its senior commanders.

The Regime Defence Forces said in a statement that, about 160 rockets and missiles, as well as, more than 15 drones, were fired at northern Israel.

“Numerous projectiles and suspicious aerial targets crossed from Lebanon into Israel,” the regime's force said, adding that, its Aerial Defence Array and Air Force“operated to intercept them and successfully intercepted several targets and projectiles.”

However, some explosive drones and shrapnel from the interceptions hit several areas, sparking fires, the regime army said.

Meanwhile, Hezbollah confirmed earlier in the day that, it attacked several Israeli sites in response to Israel's assassination of a senior commander, Mohammad Naameh Nasser, in Lebanon's south-west city of Tyre.

“Today, Thursday, the fighters of the Islamic Resistance bombed, with 20 drones and about 200 Katyusha and Falaq missiles, several Israeli sites and leadership headquarters in the Galilee and the occupied Syrian Golan,” Hezbollah said in a statement.

According to the statement, Hezbollah attacked the bases of Eilat, Katsavia, Dadu, Kiryat Shmona, the Zarit and Al-Raheb sites, and the Keila barracks.

A Lebanese military source said that, the Lebanese army positions, monitored the launching of about 25 drones and more than 150 surface-to-surface missiles from the Lebanese side to the Israeli regime side, and some of them were intercepted by Israeli Iron Dome missiles.– NNN-MA'AN

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