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Lebanon: Hezbollah Strikes Israeli Military Base with Katyusha Rockets

Smoke billows from a site targeted by the Israeli military in the southern Lebanese border village of Kafr Kila on July 29, 2024, amid ongoing cross-border clashes between Israeli troops and Hezbollah. (Photo by Rabih DAHER / AFP)
Smoke billows from a site targeted by the Israeli military in the southern Lebanese border village of Kafr Kila on July 29, 2024, amid ongoing cross-border clashes between Israeli troops and Hezbollah. (Photo by Rabih DAHER / AFP)
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Lebanon: Hezbollah Strikes Israeli Military Base with Katyusha Rockets

Smoke billows from a site targeted by the Israeli military in the southern Lebanese border village of Kafr Kila on July 29, 2024, amid ongoing cross-border clashes between Israeli troops and Hezbollah. (Photo by Rabih DAHER / AFP)
Smoke billows from a site targeted by the Israeli military in the southern Lebanese border village of Kafr Kila on July 29, 2024, amid ongoing cross-border clashes between Israeli troops and Hezbollah. (Photo by Rabih DAHER / AFP)

Lebanon’s Iran-backed Hezbollah group said Saturday it has bombed the Israeli Mount Niriya military base with volleys of Katyusha rockets.
In a statement, the party said the attack was in support of the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip, and in “retaliation to the Israeli enemy’s aggressions on the resilient (Lebanese) southern villages and safe homes”, the state-run National News Agency reported.
Hezbollah added that the base is a command center occupied by the troops of Golani Brigade- an Israeli infantry brigade.
The border areas between southern Lebanon and Israel have witnessed exchanges of fire between the Israeli army and Hezbollah, since October 8, 2023, following Israel's declaration of war on Gaza.
Hezbollah says its attacks on Israel come in support of the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.

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First Flight Since Assad’s Fall Takes Off from Damascus

General Security personnel stand next to a Syrian Air airplane ahead of take-off as the airport reopens for internal flights in Damascus, Syria, Wednesday, Dec. 18, 2024. (AP Photo/Omar Sanadiki)
General Security personnel stand next to a Syrian Air airplane ahead of take-off as the airport reopens for internal flights in Damascus, Syria, Wednesday, Dec. 18, 2024. (AP Photo/Omar Sanadiki)
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First Flight Since Assad’s Fall Takes Off from Damascus

General Security personnel stand next to a Syrian Air airplane ahead of take-off as the airport reopens for internal flights in Damascus, Syria, Wednesday, Dec. 18, 2024. (AP Photo/Omar Sanadiki)
General Security personnel stand next to a Syrian Air airplane ahead of take-off as the airport reopens for internal flights in Damascus, Syria, Wednesday, Dec. 18, 2024. (AP Photo/Omar Sanadiki)

The first flight since the ouster of Syria’s president Bashar Assad took off on Wednesday from Damascus airport to Aleppo in the country’s north, AFP journalists saw.
Thirty-two people including journalists were on board the plane.

Assad fled Syria as a lightning opposition offensive wrested from his control city after city.

His army and security forces abandoned Damascus airport on December 8, and until Wednesday no flights had taken off or landed.
Earlier this week, airport staff were painting on planes the three-star independence flag that became a symbol of the 2011 uprising and which the country's new rulers have adopted.
In the terminal, the new flag also replaced the one linked to Assad's era.