Israel’s military says it carried out dozens of air raids across Lebanon targeting Hezbollah after the assassination of the group’s leader Hassan Nasrallah in a southern Beirut suburb.At least 11 people were killed in an air raid on a house in the town of Ain in the Bekaa Valley in the northeast, according to Lebanon’s National News Agency.
The Israeli military said on Sunday it killed Nabil Kaouk, another high-ranking Hezbollah official, a day after the Lebanese armed group confirmed that Nasrallah was assassinated in the southern Beirut suburb of Dahiya on Friday, dealing a massive blow to the group engaged in cross-border fighting with Israel since last October.
Hezbollah started firing rockets at Israel in solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza. The group has set a ceasefire in Gaza as a condition to stop its cross-border attacks.
The Israeli military said in a statement on the Telegram messaging app on Sunday that its air forces attacked “dozens of terrorist targets” in Lebanon in the past few hours, hitting “buildings where weapons and military structures of the organisation were stored”.
Al Jazeera’s Imran Khan, reporting from Marjayoun in southern Lebanon, said a civil defence centre was hit in a small town just outside of the Tyre governorate, killing four people and injuring several others.
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