The Israel Defense Forces on Sunday said the military struck Hezbollah targets “deep inside” Lebanon overnight.
The Israeli Air Force targeted “weapons caches and terrorist infrastructure” in about a half-dozen areas in southern Lebanon, the military said in a statement.
A damaged gate and debris are seen at a football pitch after a reported strike from Lebanon fell in Majdal Shams village in the Israeli-annexed Golan area on July 28, 2024.
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The Israeli attack on Hezbollah infrastructure followed a deadly strike within Israel on Saturday. Hezbollah denied responsibility for the attack in Majdal Shams, a town in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights.
But an Israeli official said the rocket that struck a sports field, killing 12 people and injuring more than a dozen others, had been fired by Hezbollah.
A man stands near a damaged gate around a football pitch after a reported strike from Lebanon fell in Majdal Shams village in the Israeli-annexed Golan area on July 28, 2024.
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“We know to say that it is a Falaq rocket with a 53 kg warhead. This is a Hezbollah rocket,” Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi, IDF chief of the general staff, said in a statement. “And whoever launches such a rocket into a built-up area wants to kill civilians, wants to kill children.”
