Israel bombs Beirut after Hezbollah launches rocket attack
Source: Al Jazeera
Israeli jets have bombed Lebanons capital, Beirut, after Hezbollah launched what it said was a rocket and drone attack against a military base near Haifa in northern Israel.
The Iran-allied Lebanese armed group said early on Monday that its attack was in retaliation for the killing of Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, in defence of Lebanon and its people and in response to the repeated Israeli aggressions.
The resistance leadership has always affirmed that the continuation of Israeli aggression and the assassination of our leaders, youth and people gives us the right to defend ourselves and respond at the appropriate time and place, the group said in a statement, referring to the near daily Israeli attacks on Lebanon.
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The violence marks a major escalation in what is becoming a regional war between the United States and Israel, on one side, and Iran and its allies on the other.
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