BEIRUT (NEWSnet/AP) — Hezbollah launched 200 rockets on Thursday at several military bases in Israel, in retaliation for a strike that killed one of the militant group’s senior commanders.
Israel’s military said “numerous projectiles” had entered its territory from Lebanon. It said about 200 were launched toward the occupied Syrian Golan Heights and 20 drones into Israeli territory, but that it had intercepted some of them.
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Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency reported an Israeli drone strike of Houla killed at least one person. Israeli jets also broke the sound barrier over the Lebanese capital and other areas in the country.
On Wednesday, Israel acknowledged it had killed Mohammad Naameh Nasser, who headed one of Hezbollah’s three regional divisions in southern Lebanon.
Hours after the killing, Hezbollah launched scores of Katyusha rockets and Falaq rockets with heavy warheads into northern Israel and the occupied Syrian Golan Heights.
Nasser was of great importance to Hezbollah, which said he took part in battles in Syria and Iraq from 2011 until 2016 and fought in the gro
up’s previous war with Israel in 2006. Two other senior Hezbollah commanders also have been killed.
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