Hezbollah retaliates against Israeli regime bombing with rocket barrage

Lebanese resistance movement Hezbollah says it has fired a barrage of rockets at Israeli regime positions in occupied Shebaa Farms in retaliation for its airstrikes on southern Lebanon a day earlier.

According to reports, in a statement, Hezbollah said it hit “open fields” near Israeli positions at 11:15 a.m. local time Friday, using "dozens" of 122-caliber rockets.

Lebanon's Al Mayadeen television said at least 20 rockets were fired at Israel's military positions. Al-Minar TV said a number of the rockets targeted the Douf military base.

A Lebanese security source said the rockets were launched from the area of al-Arqoub, near the Lebanese town of Shebaa.

Air raid sirens sounded in the Upper Galilee, and in the Golan Heights, part of the territory the illegal Zionist entity occupied in 1967.

According to Al Jazeera, the Israeli military fired phosphorus bombs at Lebanese territories around the Kafr Shuba hills near the border, causing fire in nearby fields. 

Lebanese President Michel Aoun said the Israeli airstrikes were the first targeting villages since 2006 and showed an escalation in its “aggressive intent” towards his country.

Aoun also said the strikes were a direct threat to the security and stability of southern Lebanon and violated UN Security Council resolutions.

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