Big news coming in from West Asia.
Lebanon based Hezbollah group has launched large scale rocket and
drone towards Israel and this comes right after the Israeli
military launched preemptive strikes in Lebanon after detecting preparations for
large scale attacks by Hezbollah.
Hezbollah says its attack is an initial response to a
top commanders killing.
Were talking about the killing of Father Shukra in July.
The militant group has said that it began an air
attack with a large number of drones targeting deep into
Israel.
Hezbollah militants have also targeted enemy positions and barracks and
Iron Dome platforms with rockets.
It fired more than 320 Katyusha rockets targeting 11 military
bases in northern Israel.
With this, Hezbollah says that they have completed the first
phase of its attack amid escalation.
Lebanese caretaker Prime Minister is currently heading an emergency meeting
in Beirut.
Israeli Defense Minister, you have Gallant has declared a 48
hour state of emergency across the country.
Galant also briefed his US counterpart on the strike, saying
that they are closely monitoring all the developments in West
Asia.
U.S.
President Joe Biden has directed U.S.
officials to continuously communicate with Israel and also the national
security spokesperson has reassured that US will keep supporting Israelis
right to defend itself.
The Israeli military has said that its fighter jets attacked
thousands of Hezbollah rocket launchers in South Lebanon that were
aimed at northern and central Israel.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has promised that he is
determined to do everything to protect the country and return
the residents of the north to their homes.
Netanyahu is currently holding a security cabinet meeting that is
underway.
Foreign Minister Israel Katz has urged foreign counterparts to back
Israeli action against Iran and its proxies.
Further.
Israel Ben Gurion Airport had delayed departing flights and redirected
arrivals to other airports.
Flights have now been resumed.
This comes just after the Israeli Defence Forces warned Israelis
to expect incoming missiles and drones launched by Hezbollah.
Israis military spokesperson Daniel Hagadi has said that Hezbollah will
soon fire rockets and possibly missiles and UA VS towards
Israel.
Cross-border attacks between Hezbollah and Israel have escalated in recent
months.
Well, on June 18th, Hezbollah had published a video from
one of its reconnaissance drones flying over northern Israel, including
the Haifa port.
This video appeared to put out a message to Israel
that Hezbollah has an eye on Israel and access to
most of its security installations.
Then in July, Hezbollah had pushed an almost 10 minutes
long video showing footage of 17 military sites in the
Israeli occupied Syrian Golan Heights.
The video showed Israeli Iron Dome batteries, command centers and
ammunition depots.
Well, all these recent warnings indicate that Hezbollah had been
bracing for a wide scale attack against Israel for quite
some time now.