Hezbollah: 'First Phase' of Response to Shukr's Killing Complete

SCREENSHOT - 16 August 2024, Lebanon, ---: An image from the "Imad 4" video, issued by Hezbollah military media, shows an underground facility in Lebanon that appears to be used to store and launch precision missiles. Photo: -/Hezbollah Military Media via ZUMA Press Wire/dpa
SCREENSHOT - 16 August 2024, Lebanon, ---: An image from the "Imad 4" video, issued by Hezbollah military media, shows an underground facility in Lebanon that appears to be used to store and launch precision missiles. Photo: -/Hezbollah Military Media via ZUMA Press Wire/dpa
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Hezbollah: 'First Phase' of Response to Shukr's Killing Complete

SCREENSHOT - 16 August 2024, Lebanon, ---: An image from the "Imad 4" video, issued by Hezbollah military media, shows an underground facility in Lebanon that appears to be used to store and launch precision missiles. Photo: -/Hezbollah Military Media via ZUMA Press Wire/dpa
SCREENSHOT - 16 August 2024, Lebanon, ---: An image from the "Imad 4" video, issued by Hezbollah military media, shows an underground facility in Lebanon that appears to be used to store and launch precision missiles. Photo: -/Hezbollah Military Media via ZUMA Press Wire/dpa

Hezbollah launched hundreds of rockets and drones against Israel on Sunday in retaliation for the assassination of Fouad Shukr, a senior commander in Beirut last month, the group said.

Hezbollah said it had launched more than 320 Katyusha rockets towards Israel and hit 11 military targets. It said the barrage had completed "the first phase" of its response to the assassination of Shukr in Beirut’s southern suburbs but that the full response would take "some time.”

Israeli jets hit targets in Lebanon shortly before the strikes as the military assessed that Hezbollah was preparing to begin the barrage, the military said.



One Killed in Israeli Airstrike in Lebanon’s Khiam

Smoke rises from the southern Lebanese town of Khiam, amid ongoing cross-border hostilities between Hezbollah and Israeli forces, as pictured from Marjayoun, near the border with Israel, August 25, 2024. REUTERS/Karamallah Daher
Smoke rises from the southern Lebanese town of Khiam, amid ongoing cross-border hostilities between Hezbollah and Israeli forces, as pictured from Marjayoun, near the border with Israel, August 25, 2024. REUTERS/Karamallah Daher
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One Killed in Israeli Airstrike in Lebanon’s Khiam

Smoke rises from the southern Lebanese town of Khiam, amid ongoing cross-border hostilities between Hezbollah and Israeli forces, as pictured from Marjayoun, near the border with Israel, August 25, 2024. REUTERS/Karamallah Daher
Smoke rises from the southern Lebanese town of Khiam, amid ongoing cross-border hostilities between Hezbollah and Israeli forces, as pictured from Marjayoun, near the border with Israel, August 25, 2024. REUTERS/Karamallah Daher

An Israeli airstrike on a car in the southern Lebanese town of Khiam on Sunday left one person dead, Lebanon's state news agency and a security source said.

The Israeli military carried out strikes in southern Lebanon as Hezbollah fired a missile barrage across the border to avenge Fouad Shukr, one of its top commanders killed in an Israeli strike in Beirut’s southern suburbs last month.

Israel’s Home Front Command has raised the alert level in northern Israel and encouraged people to stay near bomb shelters.

Lebanon’s Health Ministry reported that two people were wounded in the Israeli strikes in southern Lebanon. One of them, a 17-year-old Syrian, was hospitalized, civil defense officials said.