Anadolu staff
18 October 2024•Update: 18 October 2024
ANKARA
Hezbollah on Friday claimed responsibility for a major missile barrage targeting the Zevulun settlement near Haifa in northern Israel.
According to Hezbollah, the strike involved a “large salvo of missiles” launched from Lebanon.
The Israeli army also reported that 15 rockets were fired from the Lebanese territory into the Galilee region of northern Israel.
The extent of the damage and casualties remains unclear.
Separately, the Lebanese National News Agency reported that the Israeli army bombed the Old Mosque in the Majdal Selm town in the Tyre district in southern Lebanon.
No further details were provided.
Israel dramatically escalated its massive bombing campaign across Lebanon against what it claims are Hezbollah targets since Sept. 23, killing at least 1,437 people, injuring over 4,123 others, and displacing more than 1.34 million people.
The aerial campaign is an escalation from a year of cross-border warfare between Israel and Hezbollah since the start of its offensive on the Gaza Strip, in which Israel has killed over 42,400 people, most of them women and children, since a Hamas attack last year.
Despite international warnings that the Mideast was on the brink of a regional war amid Israel’s relentless attacks on Gaza and Lebanon, it expanded the conflict on Oct. 1 by launching an incursion into southern Lebanon.
*Writing by Ikram Kouachi
