Retaliating for a strike that killed one of its senior commanders, the Lebanese Hezbollah group on Thursday said it has launched over 200 rockets at several military bases in Israel.
However, there are no reports of casualties so far.
“Numerous projectiles and suspicious aerial targets” had entered its territory from Lebanon, said Israel, adding, many of them were intercepted.
On Wednesday, Israel had acknowledged that it had killed Mohammad Naameh Nasser, who headed one of Hezbollah’s three regional divisions in southern Lebanon.
Hezbollah launched scores of Katyusha rockets and Falaq rockets with heavy warheads into northern Israel and the occupied Syrian Golan Heights, said AFP report.
AFP reported that Siren alerts for rocket and air attacks were sounded across Israeli areas bordering Lebanon and in the annexed Golan Heights.
17 alerts were sounded over 90 minutes in different parts of the northern region, from Nahariya in the west to the Golan in the east, AFP quoted Israel Army as saying, amid increasing fears that cross-border clashes between Hamas ally Hezbollah and Israel could escalate into an all-out war.
Another report said that Iraqi militant groups warn they are ready to enter the fray against Israel and the United States.
A field commander of the so-called Islamic Resistance in Iraq said there would be “escalation for escalation” in the event of a full-scale war in Lebanon.
Speaking to AFP on condition of anonymity, the commander said the Iran-backed group had already sent “experts and advisors” to Lebanon.
Gaza war broke out when Palestinian militant group Hamas attacked southern Israel on October 7.
The conflict quickly widened to involve several pro-Iran armed groups in the so-called “Axis of Resistance” expressing solidarity with the Palestinians and demanding an end of the Israeli offensive in Gaza.
The alliance includes Lebanon’s Hezbollah and Yemen’s Huthi rebels, who have attacked Israel and Israeli-linked shipping, but also armed groups in Syria and Iraq.
