HEZBOLLAH has launched 150 rockets at northern Israel in a chilling revenge blitz – with one blasting a playground.
The Iran-backed militant group had come under fire from intense Israeli airstrikes overnight in the biggest warplane attacks of the conflict so far.
TwitterA playground in northern Israel was reportedly hit in the rocket blitz[/caption]
ReutersA firefighter battles against flames near to Golan Heights following a rocket attack from Lebanon[/caption]
APIsrael’s Iron Dome air defence system intercepted a rocket fired from Lebanon[/caption]
AFPSmoke billows from Kfar Kila today as Israel launched more strikes in Lebanon[/caption]
Three separate Hezbollah barrages, made up of Katyusha rockets, were recorded today with the first being made up of over 60 missiles.
Minutes later the biggest collection of rockets was let off from Lebanon with 70 being reported by the IDF.
Another 20 were then reportedly launched at the Mount Meron region in Israel.
Israeli police confirmed one person had suffered minor injuries so far.
The IDF announced that “their impressive Iron Dome had intercepted some” of the rockets.
Several of the missiles are believed to have been able to breach the Israeli defence system with billowing smoke seen rising across northern Israel.
But just moments after the revenge hit by Hezbollah, Israel said it launched a counterstrike in Beirut but failed to provide any more information on the intended target.
Residents in the southern suburbs of the city heard a loud blast and saw clouds of smoke, according to Reuters.
Images show a children’s playground near the Israeli city of Safed on fire with a thick, black cloud soaring from it.
Israel says many of the fires seen across the targeted regions are as a result of fallen debris rather than direct hits.
Air raid sirens were raised across the north after the first sightings were recorded with the Iran-backed militia saying it was targeting army sites.
The group announced they had fired towards Israel’s missile and artillery battalion at the Yoav barracks.
Air and missile defence headquarters in Kila and the air defence missile base in Beria was also struck.
Israeli-occupied Golan Heights was a major target but the IDF say they successfully intercepted all attacks in the region.
Israel and Hezbollah have been exchanging fire across the Israeli-Lebanon border in parallel with the war Israel has waged in Gaza against Hamas after October 7.
Israel’s bombing of hundreds of targets overnight claimed to have destroyed 100 rocket launchers and around 1,000 launch barrels.
Black and white footage posted to social media showed the country blowing up targets with precision strikes.
Tens of thousands of people have had to flee the border area on both sides since the deadly fighting started 11 months ago.
Hezbollah has reportedly killed 26 civilians and 20 soldiers and forced another 80,000 Israelis to head south to escape the blitz.
Netanyahu vowed on Wednesday to return the evacuated Israelis “securely to their homes”.
Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant has also declared the start of a “new phase” of war as the country’s army moved north in recent weeks.
The announcement paves the way for the first full-scale invasion of southern Lebanon since 2006 in a drive to push back the terror group and allow Israelis to return home.
ReutersSeveral rockets managed to evade Israel’s defence systems and struck regions in the north of the country[/caption]
IDFIsrael released footage of its military bombing Hezbollah targets in Lebanon overnight[/caption]
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