Hezbollah launched 115 projectiles at Israel on Sunday, the IDF said.
Smoke billows from the site of an Israeli strike that targeted the outskirts of the southern Lebanese village of Zibqin on September 22, 2024. The Israeli army said that more than 100 projectiles were fired from Lebanon on September 22 and in response to the incoming fire from Hezbollah, it had launched new strikes on the group's targets in southern Lebanon.
The IDF said it was striking "Hezbollah terrorist targets in Lebanon" in response, having already bombed 400 targets through Saturday. Cross-border fire has been near-constant since Oct. 8, when Hezbollah began attacks in protest of Israel's latest offensive into the Gaza Strip, which followed Hamas' Oct. 7 operation.
Tens of thousands of Israelis have left their homes in the border region since Oct. 8 under the threat of Hezbollah strikes. Their safe return is a key war goal for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his government. An Israeli Iron Dome air defense system fires to intercept rockets that were launched from Lebanon, in northern Israel, on September. 22, 2024.The strike devastated part of the Dahiya area -- known as a Hezbollah stronghold -- and killed at least 45 people, according to the Lebanese Health Ministry. The dead included at least three children -- aged 4, 6 and 10 -- and seven women, the ministry said. Dozens more people were wounded.
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