ALBAWABA - Hezbollah has resumed its rocket attacks on Israeli settlements after a 48-hour ceasefire, as reported by the Lebanese Ministry of Health on Thursday.
According to the Israeli Broadcasting Authority, Hezbollah fired "dozens of rockets towards Israel on Thursday evening, with 15 intercepted," following a period of calm in the north.
Israeli Army Radio noted that this marks the first significant rocket fire towards the western Galilee in northern Israel since the assassination of Hezbollah's military commander, Fouad Shukr, last Tuesday.
Maariv newspaper reported that one missile was intercepted over the city of Nahariya, following a barrage of rockets from southern Lebanon.
Israeli fighter jets were observed flying at medium altitudes over border villages and towns in the western sector, extending to the skies above Tyre.
These events follow an Israeli airstrike in southern Beirut two days ago, which killed Hezbollah military commander Fouad Shukr, an Iranian military advisor, and resulted in the deaths of two children and three women.
During Shukr's funeral on Thursday, Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah declared that operations on the Lebanese front would resume on Friday morning.
Nasrallah pledged retaliation for the killings of Shukr and Hamas Political Bureau Chief Ismail Haniyeh, who was assassinated in Tehran in an attack attributed to Israel.
Hezbollah and the Israeli military have been engaged in reciprocal airstrikes and rocket attacks across the border since October, in the context of ongoing Israeli operations in Gaza.
