JERUSALEM/BEIRUT - Hezbollah fired the most rockets it has launched at Israel in a single day since cross-border hostilities broke out eight months ago, as part of its retaliation on Wednesday (June 12) for an Israeli strike which killed a senior Hezbollah field commander.
Israeli fire-fighter and another man work to take control over fire following rocket attacks from Lebanon, amid ongoing cross-border hostilities between Hezbollah and Israeli forces, in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, on June 11, 2024.
He was the most senior Hezbollah commander killed during eight months of hostilities, one of the sources said. Hezbollah said it carried out at least 17 operations against Israel on Wednesday, including eight in response to what it called the "assassination" by Israel in Jouaiyya. Speaking at a funeral procession for Abdallah in the Hezbollah-controlled southern suburbs of Beirut, senior Hezbollah official Hashem Safieddine said the group would increase the intensity, force and quantity of its operations against Israel in retaliation for his killing.
In a second announcement, Israel said approximately 90 projectiles were identified crossing from Lebanon, a number of which were intercepted while others fell in several locations in northern Israel, causing fires in a number of areas.The Israeli military said it fighter jets hit Hezbollah launch sites in two areas in southern Lebanon, while artillery shelled a third location.
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