Revenge After Senior Commander Dies, Hezbollah Launches Attack On Israel With 200 Rockets

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JAKARTA - Lebanese Hezbollah carried out attacks by launching 200 rockets and drones to 10 Israeli military locations in response to the killing of one of the main commanders of Iran's sided group in southern Lebanon.

An Israeli military spokesman said Hezbollah's claim was being reviewed, while Israeli ambulance services said no casualties had been reported.

The attack on Thursday, July 4, followed two attacks on Wednesday, July 3, in response to what Hezbollah called its commander, Mohammed Nasser.

The militant group said it launched 100 Katyusha rockets to an Israeli military base in Iran's Golan and Falaq missiles at another base in the town of Kiryat Shmona near the Israel-Lebanon border.

Nasser, who was killed in an airstrike near the southern Lebanese city of Lebanon, was one of the most senior Hezbollah commanders to have died in the conflict, two security sources in Lebanon said.

Hezbollah began shooting at Israeli targets along the border with Lebanon after its Palestinian ally Hamas launched an attack on Israel on October 7, expressing its support for Palestine.

They said they would carry out a ceasefire when Israel stopped its attack on Gaza.

Hostilities have left many casualties on both sides of the border, forcing tens of thousands of people to flee their homes.

Israeli attacks in Lebanon killed more than 300 Hezbollah fighters and 88 civilians, according to a Reuters tally.

Israel said gunfire from Lebanon had killed 18 soldiers and 10 civilians.