Hezbollah Fires Rocket Barrage Into Israel as Blinken Mounts New De-Escalation Push
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Militants in Lebanon launched one of the largest rocket barrages into Israel in recent months as the U.S.’s top diplomat arrived in the region to defuse an escalating crisis resulting from the war in Gaza.
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BEIRUT — Lebanon’s Hezbollah militia fired dozens of rockets at northern Israel on Saturday, warning that the barrage was its initial response to the targeted killing, presumably by Israel, of a top leader from the allied Hamas group in Lebanon’s capital earlier this week.
Militants in Lebanon launched one of the largest rocket barrages into Israel in recent months as the U.S.’s top diplomat arrived in the region to defuse an escalating crisis resulting from the war in Gaza.
The militia fired dozens of rockets at northern Israel, warning that the barrage was its initial response to the targeted killing of a top leader from the allied Hamas group in Lebanon's capital.
BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon’s Hezbollah militia fired dozens of rockets at northern Israel on Saturday, warning that the barrage was its initial response to the targeted killing, presumably by Israel, of a top leader from the allied Hamas group in Lebanon’s capital earlier this week.
Lebanon's Iran-backed Hezbollah group said it fired more than 60 rockets at an Israeli military base on Saturday in response to the killing in Beirut of Hamas's deputy leader."As part of the initial response to the crime of assassinating the great leader Sheikh Saleh al-Aruri...
BEIRUT >> Hezbollah fired dozens of rockets from Lebanon into northern Israel on Saturday, warning that the barrage was its initial response to the targeted killing, presumably by Israel, of a top Hamas leader in Lebanon’s capital earlier this week.
The rocket attack came a day after Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said his group must retaliate for the killing of Saleh Arouri, the deputy political leader of the militia's ally Hamas.
The cross-border escalation comes as U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken starts his fourth Mideast trip in three months in hopes of preventing the Israel-Hamas war from turning into a regional confrontation.
