The Iranian backed group Hezbollah has attacked Israel with a barrage of rockets in response to Israel’s assassinations last week.
Fears of a full-scale war with Israel and Iran grows, Israeli media reported that around 50 rockets were fired from southern Lebanon to Galilee.
Last week Israel conducted complex operations killing a senior Hezbollah commander, Fuad Shukr in Beirut, Lebanon and the assassination of the Hamas political chief Ismail Haniyeh.
Israel has been bracing for an attack from Iran and their proxies and ordered their citizens to “prepare their bomb shelters.”
Footage shows the moment that Israel’s Iron Dome air defence systems launching missiles to intercept and destroy the incoming rockets.
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The Israeli Defence Force (IDF) confirmed that “most” of the incoming “projectiles” were intercepted on Saturday night.
They said in a statement, “Following the sirens that sounded in northern Israel overnight, approximately 30 projectiles were identified crossing from Lebanon, most of which were intercepted by the IDF Aerial Defense Array.
This is not a game. This is our reality.
Hezbollah has just fired approximately 50 rockets toward civilians in northern Israel with the intent to kill as many Israelis as possible.
Hezbollah must be destroyed. pic.twitter.com/mUDg6CRWJE
— Vivid.🇮🇱 (@VividProwess) August 3, 2024
“Shortly after, the IAF struck the Hezbollah launcher from which the projectiles were launched and additional terrorist infrastructure in the area of Marjaayoun in southern Lebanon.”
The Telegraph reported that Hezbollah said in a statement, “In support of our steadfast Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip and in support of 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 Kafrkila 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.”
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