The Israeli military reported that successive rocket barrages were fired from Lebanon into northern Israel on Wednesday, following an Israeli strike that killed a senior Hezbollah commander in south Lebanon the previous day.
Hezbollah identified the slain commander as Taleb Sami Abdallah, also known as Abu Taleb, born in 1969. The Israeli military confirmed that it had killed the commander and three other fighters during the strike on a command-and-control center.
A top Hezbollah official vowed on Wednesday that the militant group would intensify its attacks on Israel following the killing of the senior commander.
“We will increase the intensity, strength, quantity, and quality of our attacks,” said Hashem Safieddine, speaking at the funeral of the slain commander.
Hezbollah has been exchanging near-daily cross-border fire with the Israeli army since its Palestinian ally Hamas attacked southern Israel on October 7, triggering war in Gaza.
“A short while ago, approximately 90 projectiles were identified crossing from Lebanon,” the Israeli military said in a statement, adding that several were intercepted but others struck inside Israel, sparking fires in parts of the north.
The initial barrage was followed by a second of around 70 projectiles a short time later, the military said.
Israel’s Magen David Adom emergency medical service reported no immediate casualties.
The latest barrages from Lebanon followed an Israeli strike that killed a senior Hezbollah commander on Tuesday.
Hezbollah claimed to have launched “dozens of Katyusha rockets” at three bases in northern Israel and struck a “military factory” with guided missiles “in response to the assassination carried out by the Zionist enemy.”
Hezbollah announced that seven of its fighters had been killed by Israeli fire since Tuesday, with a source close to the group stating that four of them were killed alongside Abdallah.
A Lebanese military source described the commander as “the most important in Hezbollah to be killed up to now since the start of the war.”
The source said the Israeli strike hit the town of Jouaiyya, 15 kilometers (nine miles) from the border.
The strike came after Hezbollah fired some 50 rockets at Israeli positions in the annexed Golan Heights earlier on Tuesday.
