HEZBOLLAH launched a barrage of missiles towards northern Israel overnight as cross-border tensions continue to rise.
Israeli forces said around 30 projectiles were fired in the attack, as the country braces for a revenge attack from Iran expected within days.
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Iran-backed Hezbollah claimed responsibility for the rockets and said they targeted a military base on Sunday night.
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) soon announced that they were firing at the area from which they were launched and confirmed that there were no casualties.
The largest proxy for terrorism in Tehran, Hezbollah, with around 50,000 militants, has vowed to seek revenge against Tel Aviv for the recent assassination of its commander-in-chief, Fuad Shukr.
Iran itself also vowed to attack its sworn enemy, Israel, following the death of a senior Hamas chief, Ismail Haniyeh, during his visit to Tehran in late July.
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) have been engaged in retaliatory strikes with Lebanon-based Hezbollah for nearly 10 months since the war in Gaza broke out.
Exchanges of fire across the border, where tens of thousands of people were evacuated on both sides, are now a daily reality.
Reports emerged over the weekend that Israel is now preparing for a potential attack from Iran itself before Thursday.
Previously, Hezbollah was expected to launch a retaliatory attack itself in response to alleged Israeli killings in the previous weeks.
But Israel now expects a direct attack from Tehran within days – possibly before ceasefire talks on Thursday. Axes reports.
As tensions rise in the war-torn region, allied forces in the UK and US have expressed concern for their civilians living in Lebanon.
The US has told its citizens to board the first available flight while British troops are deployed in the region for a military-grade evacuation operation.
And US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin yesterday ordered a fleet of aircraft carriers – including F-35 fighters and a missile-guided submarine – to the Middle East.
This comes after an Israeli airstrike hit another school in the destroyed Gaza Strip this weekend.
At least 90 people died, according to Palestinian health authorities, in an area under the influence of Hamas.
The Israeli military insisted it struck a Hamas command post, killing 19 terrorists, but the group said only civilians were killed.
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Why have tensions in the Middle East suddenly increased?
By Ellie Doughty, Foreign News Reporter
After nearly 10 months of war in Gaza, tensions reached a new level following a series of deadly attacks and high-profile assassinations by Israel in late July and early August.
On Saturday, July 27, a rocket attack fired from southern Lebanon hit a football field in the Golan Heights – a Druze village occupied by Israel – killing 12 young people, including children.
Both Israel and the US said Hezbollah, the largest of Iran’s proxy terrorist groups, which operates from Lebanon, was responsible for the deadly attack.
On Monday, July 28, the IDF launched an airstrike in an area of Beirut, the capital of Lebanon, killing Hezbollah’s most senior military commander, Fuad Shukr.
Less than two days later, at around 2 a.m. on Wednesday, July 30, Israel killed Hamas’ top political leader, Ismail Haniyeh, while he slept in Iran’s capital, Tehran.
Israel has not yet explicitly claimed responsibility for the attack, but after promising to eliminate all of Hamas last year, they are believed to be behind it.
US officials have also said they suspect Israel of being behind the killing.
On the morning of Thursday, August 1, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) announced that an attack on Khan Younis in southern Gaza killed Mohammed Deif on July 13.
Dief had worked as head of Hamas’ ruthless military wing, the al-Qassam brigades, since 2002.
It marked another major loss for Iran’s proxy terrorist groups in the region.
Early reports this week suggested that Ismail Haniyeh was shot down in a precision strike, when a rocket was fired from a drone outside his window and detonated inside the room.
Then a New York Times investigation suggested that a bomb had been planted in his room at the military complex where he was staying and detonated remotely.
Unnamed Iranian officials also shared the explosive theory with The Telegraph, further confusing the murky details surrounding Haniyeh’s death.
The Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) concluded its investigation into the humiliating security breach on Saturday, August 1, and said he died after a “short-range projectile” was fired from outside the building.
A statement broadcast on Iranian state TV said a 7kg rocket warhead was used in the attack.
Iran and its proxy groups; Hamas in Gaza, Hezbollah in Lebanon and the Houthis in Yemen have vowed to take revenge on Israel for Haniyeh’s murder.
Then, on the night of Saturday, August 3, Hezbollah fired about 30 rockets from Lebanon toward Galilee in northern Israel.
Tel Aviv’s impressive Iron Dome Defense system went into action, destroying “most” of the missiles and no one was injured.
But the UK, US and France have urged all their citizens to evacuate Lebanon as fears of a wider war breaking out in the region continue to rise.
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