HEZBOLLAH has launched 150 rockets at northern Israel in a chilling revenge blitz – with one blasting a playground.
The Iran-backed militant group had come under fire from intense Israeli airstrikes overnight in the biggest warplane attacks of the conflict so far.
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Three separate Hezbollah rocket barrages were recorded today with the first being made up of over 60 missiles.
Minutes later the biggest collection of rockets was let off from Lebanon with 70 being reported by the IDF.
Another 20 were then reportedly launched at the Mount Meron region in Israel.
Israeli police confirmed one person has suffered minor injures so far.
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The IDF announced that “some” of the rockets had been intercepted by their impressive Iron Dome.
Several of the missiles were able to breach the Israeli defence system with billowing smoke seen rising across northern Israel.
Images show a children’s playground near the city of Safed on fire with a thick, black cloud soaring from it.
Air raid sirens were raised across the north after the first sightings were recorded with the Iran-backed militia saying it was targeting army sites.
The group announced they had fired towards Israel’s missile and artillery battalion at the Yoav barracks.
Air and missile defence headquarters in Kila and the air defence missile base in Beria was also hit.
Israeli-occupied Golan Heights was also targeted, they announced.
Israel and Hezbollah have been exchanging fire across the Israeli-Lebanon border in parallel with the war Israel has waged in Gaza against Hamas after October 7.
Israel’s bombing of hundreds of targets overnight cl;aimed to have destroyed 100 rocket launchers and around 1,000 launch barrels in the strikes.
Black and white footage posted to social media showed the country blowing up targets.
Tens of thousands of people have had to flee the border area on both sides.
Hezbollah have reportedly killed 26 civilians and 20 soldiers and forced another 80,000 Israelis to head south to escape the blitz in recent weeks.
Netanyahu vowed on Wednesday to return the evacuated Israelis “securely to their homes”.
Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant declared the start of a “new phase” of war as the country’s army moved north.
The announcement paves the way for the first full-scale invasion of southern Lebanon since 2006 in a drive to push back the terror group and allow Israelis to return home.
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