Beirut:

Lebanon’s Hezbollah on Sunday stated it fired Katyusha rockets at northern Israel in response to an in a single day Israeli strike that, in line with state media, hit a weapons depot and wounded six folks.

Hezbollah has traded near-daily cross-border hearth with Israeli forces in help of Hamas because the Palestinian militant group’s October 7 assault on southern Israel triggered warfare within the Gaza Strip.

The Iran-backed Hezbollah stated it focused northern Israel’s Dafna space with Katyusha rockets “in response to the Israeli enemy’s assaults that focused civilians within the city of Adloun, injuring a number of of them”.

This comes after the Israeli army stated its air drive “struck two Hezbollah weapons storage amenities in southern Lebanon, containing rockets and extra weaponry”.

Late on Saturday, Lebanon’s state-run Nationwide Information Company stated “the Israeli enemy launched a raid” in town of Adloun, about 30 kilometres (19 miles) from the border with Israel, later saying the goal was “an ammunition depot”.

“Six civilians sustained average accidents,” the NNA stated on Sunday, revising the determine up from three the evening earlier than.

Rockets have been nonetheless exploding about an hour after the strike was first reported, the NNA stated, with movies circulating on-line displaying a number of massive explosions in Adloun.

“Shrapnel from the explosions flew to surrounding villages,” the NNA stated.

Hezbollah on Sunday stated in separate statements that three of its fighters have been killed. 

Earlier on Saturday, Hezbollah and its Palestinian ally Hamas had fired rocket salvos and explosive-laden drones at Israeli positions.

Hezbollah stated it had launched “dozens of Katyusha rockets” in the direction of northern Israel “in response” to a strike blamed on Israel that injured civilians.

Hamas’s armed wing, the Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades, stated additionally they fired a rocket salvo from south Lebanon in the direction of an Israeli army place within the Higher Galilee.

The violence since October has killed at the least 518 folks in Lebanon, in line with an AFP tally. A lot of the useless have been fighters, however they’ve included at the least 104 civilians.

On the Israeli aspect, 18 troopers and 13 civilians have been killed, in line with Israeli authorities.

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