The Lebanese militia Hezbollah fired a volley of rockets toward a small military base in northern Israel on Saturday morning, in what the group said was an initial response to the assassination of a senior Hamas commander in Lebanon five days ago that has raised fears of a wider conflagration.
Hezbollah said in a statement that the strikes had caused casualties, but there were no immediate Israeli reports of injuries and the assault was initially perceived by analysts as more of a symbolic response to the assassination than a significant escalation.
The Israeli military said in a statement that roughly 40 rockets had been fired from Lebanon toward Mount Meron, an area housing a military radar station that is roughly five miles south of the Israel-Lebanon border. The military said that it had responded by striking a militant group in Lebanon that had been involved in the rocket fire.
Yeah people don’t realize that Hezbollah’s playing a VERY dangerous balancing act here, because Lebanese folks largely don’t give a shit about crusading against Israel, so Hezbollah dragging them all into war could prompt a rebellion against Hezbollah, and if the beehive is shaken up enough, any Lebanese government that doesn’t explicitly ban and persecute any future Hezbollah activities.