Hezbollah rains rockets on Israel after strike kills commander

The Israeli military said successive rocket barrages were fired from Lebanon into northern Israel Wednesday, after an Israeli strike killed a senior Hezbollah commander in south Lebanon the previous day.

Lebanese militant group Hezbollah has traded near-daily cross-border fire with the Israeli army since its Palestinian ally Hamas attacked southern Israel on Oct. 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.

As temperatures have soared in recent days, the exchanges of fire have sparked multiple brush fires on both sides of the border.

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 said there were no immediate reports of any casualties.

The latest barrages from Lebanon came after an Israeli strike killed a senior Hezbollah commander on Tuesday.

Hezbollah said it 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 identified the slain commander as Taleb Sami Abdallah, also known as Abu Taleb and born in 1969.

Hezbollah announced seven of its fighters had been killed by Israeli fire since Tuesday, with a source close to the group telling AFP four of them were killed alongside Abdullah.

A Lebanese military source said the commander was "the most important in Hezbollah to be killed up to now since the start of the war".

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