TEHRAN, Iran
A Hezbollah leader was killed in an Israeli airstrike, the Iran proxy militia said Wednesday as it launched dozens of rockets at the Middle Eastern country.
Sirens blared throughout
northern Israel on Wednesday as some 160 rockets were launched over the border
from neighboring Lebanon.
Israel Defense Forces said the
projectiles were fired over Wednesday morning, with a number of them having
been intercepted while others fell into northern Israel, igniting several
fires.
No injuries were reported.
The IDF said fighter jets
struck a launcher in the Lebanese village of Yaroun that had fired toward
northern Israel at 10 a.m.
However, sirens continued
blare into the late morning, suggesting further projectiles were incoming.
Unidentified sources told Haaretz that the barrage was the most extensive
by Hezbollah since the war between Israel and Hamas, another Iran proxy
militia, began Oct. 7 in the Palestinian enclave of Gaza.
Hezbollah has been attacking
Israel amid the war, instigating several cross-border skirmishes, resulting in
the deaths of hundreds of the militias fighters while raising fears of the
fighting expanding from Gaza throughout the Middle East.
The militia launched the
rockets as it announced the death of one of its leaders, Talib Sami Abdullah.
In a statement carried
by Lebanese broadcaster Al-Manar, Hezbollah said he was killed Wednesday while
"on the road to Jerusalem," which the militant group uses for Israeli
airstrikes.
He was killed along with three
other Hezbollah operatives in the strike.
The IDF has yet to comment on
the attack.
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