Lebanon’s Hezbollah announced that it fired dozens of rockets at northern Israel on Thursday, August 1. These strikes were launched in response to an Israeli bombardment that killed four Syrians in southern Lebanon, the pro-Iranian Islamist movement announced in a statement.
Hezbollah fighters “launched dozens of Katyusha-type rockets” on Kibbutz Matzuva, the pro-Iranian movement said in a statement, “in response to the Israeli enemy’s attack on the town of Chamaa which killed several civilians”. The Lebanese Islamist movement had announced an “inevitable response” after Israel’s assassination of its military leader Fouad Chokr. The Israeli army said that many projectiles had crossed Israeli territory from Lebanon, adding that it had intercepted some of them. “The rest fell in open areas,” it said. Follow our live coverage.
Joe Biden will discuss tensions in the Middle East with Benjamin Netanyahu this Thursday. “The president intends to speak with Prime Minister Netanyahu later today. They have not spoken yet.”said U.S. National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan.
Yemen’s Houthis vow ‘military response’ to ‘dangerous escalation’ attributed to Israel “Our position on these crimes (…) is clear”the leader of the pro-Iran rebel movement said in a televised speech after the assassination of Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh. “There must be a military response to these crimes, which are dangerous, brazen and constitute a major escalation by the Israeli enemy.”he added.
Israel must expect Hezbollah’s “inevitable response.” “Israel does not know what red lines it has crossed” said Lebanese Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah in a televised speech broadcast live at Fouad Shokr’s funeral.
Lufthansa Group is suspending all flights to Tel Aviv until August 8 inclusive. The leading European airline group has also extended the suspension of its flights to Beirut by one week, until August 12 inclusive. “Due to current developments, Lufthansa is once again adapting its conditions in the Middle East,” said the German company, which also owns the airlines Swiss, Austrian Airlines and Eurowings.