Smoke rises as seen from Ibl al-Saqi village in southern Lebanon. Reuters
Gulf Today Report
Dozens of rockets were launched from southern Lebanon towards Israel, while the Israeli army responded with artillery shelling, targeting the sites from which the rockets were launched.
On Friday, a Lebanese security source said that missiles were fired from southern Lebanon towards Israel, while the Lebanese news agency reported "a heavy flight of Israeli warplanes at low altitudes over Hasbaya and Arqoub."
Lebanon’s Hizbollah group said that it fired a barrage of rockets on Israeli positions close to the Lebanese border on Friday.
The attack is in retaliation for Israeli airstrikes on Lebanon a day earlier.
Hizbollah says it rocketed "open fields” near Israeli positions in the disputed Shebaa farms area, with dozens of rockets.
It did not provide further details.
Hizbollah’s Al-Manar TV reported that five rockets were fired from southern Lebanon toward an Israeli army position in the Shebaa Farms area on the edge of the Golan Heights.
The group said in a statement: that at 11:15 am on Friday, in response to the Israeli air raids on open lands in the Al-Jarmaq and Al-Shawakir areas last Thursday night, Hizbollah bombed open lands in the vicinity of Shebaa Farms with dozens of 122 mm rockets.