The Lebanese-Israeli front flared up on Friday, April 12, in the early evening, against a backdrop of Iranian threats to strike Israel in response to the destruction, on April 1, of the Iranian consulate in Damascus. This strike attributed to Israel killed seven members of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards, including two generals.
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This is probably the most massive salvo of rockets launched by the Hezbollah against Israel since the start of clashes on the Lebanese-Israeli front on October 8. More than 80 projectiles were fired in just a few minutes towards the Finger of the Galilee and the Syrian Golan occupied and annexed by Israelreports our correspondent in Beirut,Paul Khalifeh.
Hezbollah indicated in a statement that it had targeted Israeli artillery batteries in this strike. Hassan Nasrallah’s party also deployed kamikaze drones on Friday and attacked at least five military positions or localities on the other side of the border.
The Israeli army, for its part, indicated that “ around 40 shots were detected coming from Lebanese territory, some of which were intercepted “. “ No injuries reported “, said the army, adding that it had previously intercepted two ” Hezbollah explosive drones “.
The Israeli army was not to be outdone. The aviation carried out raids against four Lebanese border localities, and the artillery fired dozens of shells at numerous points of the front which extends over 120 kilometers, from the Mediterranean to the foothills of the Golan. Israeli planes also flew over the southern suburbs of Beirut, the main stronghold of Hezbollah, and the region of Mount Lebanon.