Lebanon’s Hezbollah movement said it fired “dozens” of rockets on Friday near Israeli positions close to the Lebanese border in retaliation against Israel’s Thursday airstrikes on Southern Lebanon.
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) stated on Twitter that Israel’s defense system intercepted more than 10 rockets fired from Lebanon and that are conducting airstrikes targeting “the launch sites in Lebanon.”
Lebanon and Israel have been exchanging fire over the border for several days now after Israel reported rocket fire from Lebanon for two consecutive days, leading to Israel’s first airstrike against Lebanon since 2014, targeting “the launch sites and infrastructure used for terror in Lebanon.”
This marks the first military between the two Middle Eastern countries since 2019 when Hezbollah attacked an Israeli military vehicle in what it said was a response to two “Israeli” attacks against it in Syria and Lebanon.
The UN peacekeeping force patrolling the Lebanese-Israeli border UNIFIL said that the situation at the border was “very dangerous,” following the fire exchange on Friday and that it was working to “prevent the situation from spiraling out of control”.
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