Israel, Hezbollah fire rockets at each other on Sunday – NRK Urix – Foreign News & Documentaries

Initial reports on Sunday night said that Hezbollah fired a number of rockets at the Ramat David air base, about 50 kilometers from the border with Lebanon.

On Sunday morning, Agence France-Presse reported that the Israeli military fired missiles at what it believed were military targets inside Lebanon.

– Attacks against Hezbollah in Lebanon will continue and will intensify, the Israeli military said in a statement.

The number of missiles fired by Israel at the country is not yet known.

Response to Israeli attacks

Local media reported that the rockets stopped in the Haifa and Nazareth areas. The Israeli military only said that it monitored the launching of “about ten rockets” from Lebanon, most of which were stopped.

Hezbollah says it fired a number of Fadi 1 and Fadi 2 missiles, which it says have never been used before.

The group says the rocket attack is in response to repeated Israeli attacks.

A few days ago, several thousand pagers and walkie-talkies exploded in Lebanon. So far, there is ample evidence that Israel was behind the attack, which injured nearly 3,000 people and killed dozens.

On Friday, a number of Hezbollah fighters were killed in an Israeli attack on Beirut, including two of the group's top leaders.

On the brink of “immediate disaster”

The United Nations Special Coordinator for Lebanon, Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert, said on Sunday morning that the region is on the “brink of immediate catastrophe,” according to Reuters.

She says it cannot be stressed enough that increased military efforts only make the situation worse.

Meanwhile, Israeli authorities wrote that all schools in the north of the country would be closed as a result of the rocket attacks and increasing unrest in the border areas.

Initially, schools will remain closed until Monday evening, AFP reported.