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.



Flights Cancelled Amid Hezbollah-Israel Escalation

Passengers wait for their flights at the Beirut International Airport in Beirut on August 25, 2024. (Photo by ANWAR AMRO / AFP)
Passengers wait for their flights at the Beirut International Airport in Beirut on August 25, 2024. (Photo by ANWAR AMRO / AFP)
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Flights Cancelled Amid Hezbollah-Israel Escalation

Passengers wait for their flights at the Beirut International Airport in Beirut on August 25, 2024. (Photo by ANWAR AMRO / AFP)
Passengers wait for their flights at the Beirut International Airport in Beirut on August 25, 2024. (Photo by ANWAR AMRO / AFP)

Several airlines have cancelled flights to Beirut after Hezbollah launched rockets and drones at Israel on Sunday and Israel's military said it struck Lebanon with about 100 jets.

Jordan's flag carrier Royal Jordanian suspended flights to Beirut "due to the current situation,” the state news agency reported without giving an exact time frame for the suspension.

Officials told Reuters there was no disruption to Jordanian airspace.

As for Air France, it cancelled its flights to Tel Aviv and Beirut until Monday at least, the company said.

On Friday, German airline giant Lufthansa said it was extending a suspension of flights to Beirut until September 30.

Lebanon's civil aviation authority emphasised Sunday that "the airport is functioning normally" despite some disruptions.

There is "no truth" to rumours that all flights have been cancelled, said a statement from the authority carried by the official National News Agency.

A number of airlines had already announced flight suspensions or cancellations to Beirut in recent weeks, with some later resuming services.