Hezbollah fired two volleys of rockets at northern Israel on Sunday morning, after an Israeli airstrike the previous night in Lebanon killed five people, including three members of the terror group.
According to the Israel Defense Forces, some 37 rockets were fired from Lebanon at the Mount Meron area. There were no reports of injuries or damage in the attack.
In the first barrage of 30 rockets, one projectile was intercepted by the Iron Dome air defense system, and in the second barrage minutes later, seven rockets were fired, with six of them being successfully downed, the IDF said.
Hezbollah claimed responsibility for the attack, saying it fired dozens of Katyusha rockets at the town of Meron. It did not claim to have targeted the IDF’s nearby Mount Meron air traffic control base, which Hezbollah has fired missiles at previously.
Footage posted to social media showed several rockets striking the mountainside
The terror group said the barrages were a response to the deaths of civilians in an Israeli strike in southern Lebanon’s Khirbet Selm on Saturday night.
Five members of one family were reported killed in the strike. Hezbollah announced that three of them, Jaafar Marji, Ali Marji, and Hassan Marji, were members of the terror group.
The IDF on Sunday morning confirmed it had struck a building in Khirbet Selm, where it said several Hezbollah operatives were spotted. It also said it struck Hezbollah infrastructure in Ayta ash-Shab and an anti-tank missile post in Maroun al-Ras.
Since October 8, Hezbollah-led forces have attacked Israeli communities and military posts along the border on a near-daily basis, with the group saying it is doing so to support Gaza amid the war there.
So far, the skirmishes on the border have resulted in seven civilian deaths on the Israeli side, as well as the deaths of ten IDF soldiers and reservists. There have also been several attacks from Syria, without any injuries.
Hezbollah has named 241 members who have been killed by Israel during the ongoing skirmishes, mostly in Lebanon but some also in Syria. In Lebanon, another 37 operatives from other terror groups, a Lebanese soldier, and at least 30 civilians, three of whom were journalists, have been killed.