Hezbollah Fires Rockets Into Israel on Anniversary of Hamas’s Oct. 7 Attack

Published on October 7, 2024

The Hezbollah terrorist group fired rockets at Israel’s third largest city Haifa early on Monday as Israeli forces looked poised to expand ground incursions into southern Lebanon on the first anniversary of the Gaza war, which has spread conflict across the Middle East. Iran-backed Hezbollah, an ally of Hamas, the Palestinian terrorist group fighting Israel in Gaza, said it targeted a military base south of Haifa with “Fadi 1” missiles and launched another strike on Tiberias, 40 miles away. Hezbollah said it targeted areas north of Haifa with missiles in a second assault later on Monday. The Israeli military said the air force was carrying out extensive bombings of Hezbollah targets in south Lebanon, and that two Israeli soldiers were killed in border-area combat, taking the military death toll inside Lebanon so far to 11....

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