Hezbollah fires rockets at Israel in ‘response’ to Hamas leader’s killing
Al JazeeraLebanese group says it targeted Meron air base following the killing of Hamas leader Saleh al-Arouri in Beirut. Lebanese armed group Hezbollah has said it targeted a vital Israeli military post with a barrage of 62 rockets as a “preliminary response” to the killing of a Hamas leader in Beirut this week. “As part of the initial response to the crime of assassinating the great leader Sheikh Saleh al-Arouri … the Islamic resistance targeted the Meron air control base with 62 various types of missiles,” the Iran-aligned group said in a statement on Saturday of the attacks in northern Israel. Nasrallah has warned Israel against expanding the conflict, saying there would be “no ceilings” and “no rules” to his group’s fighting if Israel chose to launch a war on Lebanon. “That’s interesting because the more pressure it puts on Hezbollah, there may be a misfire or a miscalculated strike from either side and that could escalate things.” With no end in sight to Israel’s war on Gaza and amid soaring regional tensions, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken is on his fourth visit to the Middle East in three months.