Lebanese armed group Hezbollah has said it targeted a vital Israeli military post with a barrage of 62 rockets as a “preliminary response” to the killing of a Hamas leader in Beirut this week.
“As part of the initial response to the crime of assassinating the great leader Sheikh Saleh al-Arouri … the Islamic resistance (Hezbollah) targeted the Meron air control base with 62 various types of missiles,” the Iran-aligned group said in a statement on Saturday of the strikes in northern Israel.
"Our fighters fired 62 missiles at the military facility on Mount Meron and scored a direct hit," the statement said. "The Islamic Resistance says that this operation is the first response to the assassination of the Palestinian Hamas deputy political bureau chief Saleh al-Arouri and his associates," the movement pointed out.
The Israeli army’s press service reported earlier that Lebanon fired 40 projectiles at the Meron area. Shortly after, an attack was launched against a unit shelling the Israeli territory.
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Lebanese National Resistance announced Saturday that it targeted, with 62 missiles the Israeli enemy “Meron” air control base.
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The resistance added “the Meron air base, which is located on the top of Mount Jarmaq, is considered the only center for surveillance and air control in northern Occupied Palastine and it is one of two main bases in the usurping entity, Meron in the north, and the second one is Mitzpe Ramon in the south”.