nathanwilliamspoker|Hezbollah attacks Israeli settlement in response to deadly airstrike on S. Lebanon

BEIRUT, Augnathanwilliamspoker. 17 (Xinhua) -- Hezbollah attacked on Saturday morning the settlement of Ayelet HaShahar in northern Israel for the first time with Katyusha rockets, in response to the Israeli attack on the Wadi al-Kfour area in Nabatieh which killed 10 civilians and injuring five others, the militant group said in a statementnathanwilliamspoker.

Lebanese military sources, who spoke on condition of anonymity, told Xinhua that some of the drones and rockets launched from Lebanon to northern Israel were intercepted by Israeli Iron Dome missiles, while others exploded in the airspace of the border area in southern Lebanon.

An Israeli warplane carried out a raid early Saturday, firing two air-to-ground missiles on the residential building in the middle of the industrial zone in Wadi al-Kfour, Nabatieh district, deep in southern Lebanon, killing 10 and wounding five others.

Tensions along the Lebanon-Israel border escalated on Oct. 8, 2023, following a barrage of rockets launched by Hezbollah toward Israel in solidarity with Hamas's attack on Israel the day before. Israel then retaliated by firing heavy artillery toward southeastern Lebanon.

The situation escalated further after Israel's attack on Dahieh in Beirut's southern suburbs, killing a senior Hezbollah military commander, Fouad Shokor, and seven civilians. Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah threatened a definite and painful response to the Israeli raid at the appropriate time and place.■