The Lebanese militant group Hezbollah fired more than 100 rockets into northern Israel on Tuesday morning, according to Israel’s military. It was one of the heaviest barrages in the months of cross-border strikes that have fed fears that the war in the Gaza Strip could expand to another front.
It was not immediately clear how many of the rockets landed or were intercepted by Israeli air defences. Israel’s military said its fighter jets had retaliated by striking a number of sites linked to Hezbollah in Lebanon.
In a statement, Hezbollah said it had launched the volley in response to Israeli military strikes on Monday in Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley and as a show of support for Palestinians in Gaza.
On Tuesday, Hezbollah said that its leader, Hassan Nasrallah, had met top Hamas officials to discuss “the ongoing negotiations to achieve a ceasefire in Gaza and fulfill the resistance’s conditions”.
