Risk of regional war climbs as Hezbollah says attacks involving 320 drones and rockets are ‘first phase’ of response to killing of one of its top commanders
Israel has carried out airstrikes in Lebanon in what it described as a pre-emptive action ahead of a planned large-scaleHezbollah meanwhile announced it had carried out an attack with drones and more than 320 rockets against 11 Israeli military sites on Sunday morning as a “first phase” of its response to the death of one of its top commanders, Fuad Shukr, in an Israeli airstrike last month.
The Israeli news agency Ynet cited reports from Lebanon saying the air force struck 40 targets. A medical source told the Guardian that one person had been killed in an Israeli drone strike on a car in the town of Khiam, south Lebanon, while at least four others were reported as injured in separate strikes.
Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu and the defence minister, Yoav Gallant, were in an underground Israel Defense Forces situation room in the early hours of Sunday to oversee the airstrikes, and the country’s security cabinet was due to meet at 7am, as Israel braced for the possibility of more cross-border fire.
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