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.



Egypt Warns Against Dangers of Opening New War Front in Lebanon

A view shows smoke on the Lebanese side of the border with Israel, as people sit at a beach in Tyre, amid ongoing cross-border hostilities between Hezbollah and Israeli forces, southern Lebanon August 25, 2024. REUTERS/Aziz Taher
A view shows smoke on the Lebanese side of the border with Israel, as people sit at a beach in Tyre, amid ongoing cross-border hostilities between Hezbollah and Israeli forces, southern Lebanon August 25, 2024. REUTERS/Aziz Taher
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Egypt Warns Against Dangers of Opening New War Front in Lebanon

A view shows smoke on the Lebanese side of the border with Israel, as people sit at a beach in Tyre, amid ongoing cross-border hostilities between Hezbollah and Israeli forces, southern Lebanon August 25, 2024. REUTERS/Aziz Taher
A view shows smoke on the Lebanese side of the border with Israel, as people sit at a beach in Tyre, amid ongoing cross-border hostilities between Hezbollah and Israeli forces, southern Lebanon August 25, 2024. REUTERS/Aziz Taher

Egypt warned against the dangers of opening a new war front in Lebanon, the foreign ministry said in a statement on Sunday, and called for stability in the country as Hezbollah and Israel clashed again.

Israel launched a wave of airstrikes across southern Lebanon early Sunday in what it said was a preemptive strike on Hezbollah, as the group said it had launched hundreds of rockets and drones to avenge the killing of one of its top commanders last month.

The heavy exchange of fire came amid mounting fears of an all-out war that could draw in the United States, Iran and its militant allies across the region.

The Israeli military said it struck because Hezbollah was planning to launch a heavy barrage of rockets and missiles toward Israel. Soon after, Hezbollah announced it had launched an attack on Israeli military positions as an initial response to the killing of Fouad Shukur, one of its founders, in an Israeli airstrike in Beirut last month.