Hezbollah announced that it fired “more than 100 rockets” at Israeli military positions, in retaliation for an Israeli airstrike that killed one person in eastern Lebanon on Monday.
In a statement, Hezbollah, a pro-Iranian Lebanese movement, said it had fired “more than a hundred Katyoucha rockets” at two military bases in northern Israel.
“It was a response to the Israeli attacks against our people, our villages and our cities, where a citizen (in Baalbeck) was killed”, says the Hezbollah statement.
On Monday night, Israeli airstrikes killed one person near Baalbeck, in eastern Lebanon. It was the second Israeli attack against Hezbollah since clashes began on the border with Lebanon.
On February 26, Israeli strikes targeted Baalbeck for the first time, about 100 kilometers from the border and close to Syria, killing two Hezbollah members.
The pro-Iranian group says it will only end attacks against Israel if there is a ceasefire in Gaza.
Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant recently warned that a possible truce in Gaza would not affect Israel’s “objective” of removing Hezbollah from the northern border, “by force or diplomacy”.
Since violence began in the border area on October 8 last year, 317 people, mostly Hezbollah fighters, and 54 civilians have been killed in Lebanon, according to a count by Agence France Presse.
On both sides of the border, the constant exchange of gunfire caused the displacement of tens of thousands of people. In Israel, 10 soldiers and seven civilians were killed.