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Four civilians were killed and four others were wounded on August 1 in an Israeli strike that targeted southern Lebanon, the heartland of Hezbollah.
Lebanese media reported that the strike hit a house in the town of Chamaa, killing a mother and her three children. The victims were all Syrian refugees. The four other wounded in the strike were Lebanese nationals.
Hezbollah responded quickly to the deadly strike, launching late on August 1 dozens of “Katyusha” rockets at the northern Israeli settlement of Metzuba. Early on August 2, the group also announced that its air defenses fired at Israeli fighter jets over southern Lebanon, forcing them to retreat.
The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) said that most of the rockets fired by Hezbollah were intercepted by Iron Dome air defense systems and didn’t report any losses. The launcher used in the attack was later targeted near the southern Lebanese town of Yater, according to the military, which released video footage of the strike.
The rocket attack on Metzuba was Hezbollah’s first operation against Israel in around 48. The group suspended operations on July 31 in order to facilitate the funeral of its senior commander, Fuad Shukr, who was assassinated by the IDF in the suburbs of the Lebanese capital, Beirut, a day earlier.
Hezbollah Secretary-General Hasan Nasrallah said during Shukr’s funeral that the group will respond to the assassination, and will separately resume operations against the IDF in support of the Gaza Strip from August 2. The deadly strike on Chamaa has apparently forced the group to resume its operations earlier.
Since the outbreak of the Israeli war on Gaza last October, Hezbollah and its allies have been launching attacks from Lebanon against the IDF in support of the Strip.
So far, the clashes between the IDF and Hezbollah have resulted in 25 civilian deaths in Israel and the occupied Golan as well as the deaths of at least 21 soldiers and security officers. On the Lebanese side, more than 600 people have been killed, including 368 fighters of Hezbollah and over 100 civilians.
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hwzbollah firing at war planes is a big step up feom hamas’ donated pipe rockets. i wonder if they coordinated this too and it’s all for show
this is truly now escalation. total war is in hand.
ak to takto bude pokračovať ďalej tak tu bude čo nevidieť poriadna mela. irán si zrejme nenechá brnkať na nervy. a žid asi nedomyslel následky, čo ak ich usa nebudú schopné dotovať a tým pádom aj dostatočne ochrániť? na to mali myslieť skôr ako začali páchať teroristické útoky. ale zrejme toto je odpoveď na posledný útok, ktorý irán vykonal proti židom!!! tak, že napätie sa stupňuje.
hopefully hezbollah has better aa missile system in reserve. scaring off idf planes with missiles is ok, but when it comes to invasion, they will have to actually hit them. so far their aa is effective only on drones. when they start dropping them from the sky, it will be game on for real. idf air power is the only thing that keeps the israel ship afloat. better yet, hit them while they are still on the ground.
if the iranians can strike the jews a severe blow, the rest, like hezbollah, the iraqi resistence and houthis can inctease the pressure to such extent that the jews can’t do much about. after all, the jews been trying to beat hamas in gaza to no avail andvfact is that the intruders, the criminal jews, can never defeat the indigenous people, the palestinians – their attempted genocide is a failure and nothing will change that!