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 Gaza could expand to another front.
It was not immediately clear how many of the rockets landed or were intercepted by Israeli air defenses. 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.
The group is a key ally of Hamas, whose Oct. 7 attacks on Israel led to the war in Gaza. On Tuesday, Hezbollah said that its leader, Hassan Nasrallah, had met with top Hamas officials to discuss “the ongoing negotiations to achieve a cease-fire in Gaza and fulfill the resistance’s conditions.”
One of those officials was Khalil al-Hayya, who led Hamas’s delegation at recent cease-fire talks in Cairo. The United States, Egypt and Qatar had been pushing to broker a truce between Israel and Hamas before the start of Ramadan, the Muslim holy month, on Monday, but the negotiations stalled.
Since Oct. 7, Hezbollah has been firing rockets into northern Israel on a near-daily basis. The Israeli military regularly responds with strikes against Hezbollah-linked targets inside Lebanon.
@ISIDEWITH2mos2MO
If a friend of yours were in a similar situation to Hezbollah or Israel, under what circumstances would you support or oppose their actions?
@9CJ6CB62mos2MO
I’m good with someone punching back if someone punched you, but we need to measure the response, the reaction, who started it, and why each one did what they did. When reviewing this, act like the school
I’m good with someone punching back after getting punched by the school bully, but we need to measure why everything happened, the severity of the reaction, and how each of them reacted. Basically, act like the school principal sitting two kids in a chair, trying to get the whole picture to see who’s most responsible and what should be done.
@9KV9JT62mos2MO
i would spread awareness and protest make the word know.
@9KV927Y2mos2MO
I would not support thei actions especially if its illegal firing more than 100 rockets in the air. It can hurt someone badly.
@ISIDEWITH2mos2MO
What rights do countries have to defend themselves when attacked, and where should they draw the line?
@9KVF3KP2mos2MO
If someone is attacked or being attacked, I think that that country has every right to defend themselves in any means possible. But overall I think it does depend on how another country started it, and what they did in means of starting the attack.
@9KV8N3X2mos2MO
They should be able to defend themselves however they need to survive. They should draw the line somewhere before Nuclear War.
@ZestfulHedgehogRepublican2mos2MO
The UN, as usual, is painfully incompetent in this situation and woefully inconsequential. Don't they have peacekeeping troops on the Lebanese border with orders to keep Hezbollah forces out of the border area? Hezbollah simply ignores them and does what they want and suffers no criticism for having done so. The sole UN response is to issue meaningless resolutions that do nothing. What a waste of money and New York City real estate.
@9CJ6CB62mos2MO
That’s because we didn’t give the UN much of any power. It’s military is made of volunteers, courtesy of our weak system of the international community, and those volunteers are uncoordinated and corrupt, so no, they can’t deal with hezbollah, because NOTHING is stopping them from just… leaving.
@ISIDEWITH2mos2MO
Can there be a 'right side' in a conflict where both parties claim to be defending themselves, and how do you determine it?
@9KVF3KP2mos2MO
I think that there definetly can be a right side to the conflict, It just depends on who started it and who is really defending themself.
@9KW3Y5H2mos2MO
Over a hundred rockets are fired into a land that holds many lives including many children; the stories of these citizens will forever be untold as their voices are silenced because land is being chosen over their lives.
@ThirdPartyJimmyDemocrat2mos2MO
The difference is that Lebanon's south has been on a war footing since at least 1978 when Israel invaded up to the river Litani, seeking to 'destroy' PLO fighters. Back then, it was only 30 years since 750,000 Palestinians had been displaced.
Today, 65 years later, here we are again. This is the future of the Israelis, unless they sit down and hammer out a viable peace with the Palestinians. They will not share however, because their maximalist vision does not include sharing the 'holy land'...Endless war for them!
@XfactorRepresentationGreen2mos2MO
Re-populate the borders and the neglected farms with the illegal religious fanatics hanging out in the West Bank in settlements paid for by the U.S., and avoiding military service because they're "religious."
@PaellaEdWorking Family2mos2MO
Hezbollah started this. Why is pressure on the Israeli government to end it? What are they supposed to do? Just let Hezbollah continue to fire rockets with no response?
Watching events in this region unfold throughout my 60 years on this Earth, I am constantly reminded of Gandhi's words: "An eye for an eye leaves the whole world blind."
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