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SvennoJ on 12 March 2024
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Dozens of rockets fired at northern Israel and Golan Heights

Dozens of rockets have been fired from Lebanon at Israel’s Upper Galilee region and the occupied Golan Heights, according to the Israeli army radio and media reports. Some of them landed in open areas, while others were intercepted by Israel’s defence systems, reports say.

Footage shared on social media purportedly showed rockets in the air and landing in open areas. Sirens had sounded in several regions in the north of the occupied Golan Heights and Upper Galilee.

Israeli army says about 70 rockets fired from Lebanon

A barrage of rockets was fired from Lebanon at territories under Israeli control this morning, according to the army quoted by the national media. There were no immediate reports of causalities or damage.

Earlier, the reports said some of the rockets, which targeted Israel’s Upper Galilee region and the occupied Golan Heights, were intercepted by Israel’s defence system, while others landed in open areas.

More rockets launched from Lebanon to Golan Heights: Army radio

About 30 more rockets have been launched from Lebanon towards the occupied Golan Heights, increasing the total number to about 100, according to Israel’s army radio and other media reports.

Sirens did not sound for the second barrage and no causalities or damage was reported, media reports said.

Hezbollah claims rocket attacks on Golan Heights

The Lebanese group has claimed the rocket attacks on the occupied Golan Heights in the morning. A Hezbollah statement said its fighters targeted “the air and missile defence command in the Keila barracks” and “the missile and artillery base in Yoav” with more than 100 rockets.

The attacks were carried out in support of the Palestinians in Gaza and in response to the Israeli attacks on southern Lebanon, including the most recent one in the vicinity of the city of Baalbek. Four people were reportedly killed in Israel’s strikes around Baalbek.

Israeli jets target rocket launchers in Lebanon

Israeli army says its fighter jets attacked three rocket launchers in Lebanon. The statement on X said this morning’s rocket attacks on the occupied Golan Heights were carried out from those launchers.

Israeli jets attack Lebanese city of Bint Jbeil

More updates are coming in on the cross-border attacks between Lebanon’s Hezbollah group and the Israeli army. Israeli warplanes carried out air strikes targeting the northwestern outskirts of the city of Bint Jbeil, according to the official Lebanese National News Agency.

Israeli jets hit Hezbollah sites in Lebanon’s Baalbek: Army

More updates are coming in on the cross-border attacks by the Israeli army and Lebanon’s Hezbollah group. The army says its fighter jets recently attacked two military headquarters of Hezbollah in the Baalbek area in southern Lebanon.

Hezbollah, Israel conflict ‘escalating steadily’

Omar Ashour, a security professor at the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies, say the conflict between Hezbollah and Israel has been “escalating steadily”.

“Now we have more rockets launched from south Lebanon than anything that happened in Gaza from February 15, and also […] in 2006 the July 34 day war, Hezbollah was launching about 120 rockets per day, so now we’re reaching that,” Ashour told Al Jazeera.

He added that Hezbollah’s military arsenal is “much greater” than Hamas’s and is considered a “rocket artillery army”. “It [Hezbollah] has at least 50,000 members who are regulars in its armed forces and another 50,000 reservists. So we’re talking about a force of manpower of about 100,000, that’s the force of about a small state.”

US hits targets in Yemen after attack on merchant ship

US forces said they destroyed an underwater drone and nearly 20 ballistic missiles in a series of strikes against Yemen’s Houthi rebels.

The US Central Command (CENTCOM) said on Monday night the strikes were carried out after the Houthis fired two missiles towards a Singaporean-owned, Liberian-flagged merchant ship called the Pinocchio. “The missiles did not impact the vessel and there were no injuries or damage reported,” CENTCOM said.

Hours later, it added, US forces “conducted six self-defense strikes destroying an unmanned underwater vessel and 18 anti-ship missiles in Houthi controlled areas of Yemen”.

The Houthis claimed responsibility for the attack on the Pinocchio in a statement early Tuesday, maintaining the missile strike “was accurate”.

The British maritime security agency UKMTO had previously said on Monday that a ship in the area “reported a sound of an explosion” in its vicinity southwest of the Yemeni port of Salif, and that US-led coalition forces were investigating.