BEIRUT (AP) — The militant Hezbollah group fired more than 50 rockets at military posts in northern Israel on Thursday, a day after an Israeli airstrike on a home in southern Lebanon killed five of the group’s senior fighters.
The waves of rockets sent over the border represented one of the most intense bombardments since Hezbollah started attacking Israeli posts in the country's north at the beginning of the Israel-Hamas war.
The war was triggered by an Oct. 7 Hamas attack on southern Israel that left about 1,200 people dead, most of them civilians, and resulted in about 240 hostages getting taken to Gaza.
The deaths bring the number of Hezbollah fighters who have been killed in seven weeks of fighting to at least 83.
Kataib Hezbollah is allied with Lebanon's Hezbollah but the groups have different leaders.
Persons:
Abbas Raad, Mohammed Raad, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, Hossein Amirabdollahian, “, Amirabdollahian, Thomas Hudner, Arleigh Burke
Organizations:
Iranian, Hezbollah, Yemen’s, American, Command, ”
Locations:
BEIRUT, Israel, Lebanon, Gaza, Beit Zeitem, Beit Yahoun, Beirut, Iran, Iraq, Syria, U.S, Yemen’s Iran