Hezbollah says it strikes Israeli army site
The Lebanese group says on Telegram that it has “achieved a direct hit” on a location it called the ‘Jal al-Allam’ military site on the Israeli-Lebanese border, striking it with mortar shells. It also said it has struck the Kiryat Shmona barracks.
Rockets launched towards Israel’s Kiryat Shmona
More developments from northern Israel, where Israeli Army Radio has reported that about 15 rockets were fired at Kiryat Shmona and its surroundings. Some of the rockets were intercepted, the report said.
Kiryat Shmona lies just across the border from Lebanon, and has been repeatedly attacked by Hezbollah rocket fire. We earlier reported that Hezbollah had claimed an attack on Israeli army barracks in Kiryat Shmona.
The deputy leader of the Lebanese Hezbollah group has said the only sure path to a ceasefire on the Lebanon-Israel border is a full truce in Gaza.
“If there is a ceasefire in Gaza, we will stop without any discussion,” Hezbollah’s deputy leader, Sheikh Naim Kassem, said in an interview with The Associated Press news agency at the group’s political office in Beirut’s southern suburbs.
Hezbollah’s participation in the Israel-Hamas war has been as a “support front” for its ally, Hamas, Kassem said, and “if the war stops, this military support will no longer exist”.
However, he said, if Israel scales back its military operations without a formal ceasefire agreement and full withdrawal from Gaza, the implications for the Lebanon-Israel border conflict are less clear.
