Hezbollah says it targeted military factory west of Safed with rocket barrage

Lebanon’s Hezbollah announced early Tuesday that it had launched a barrage of rockets targeting a military facility located west of Safed in northern Israel.

In a statement, the group said the attack was carried out “in response to the criminal Israeli aggression that targeted dozens of Lebanese cities and towns and the southern suburbs of Beirut.”

Hezbollah added that fighters from what it calls the Islamic Resistance launched the rockets at 23:00 on Monday.

Earlier, the group said it had also targeted a Home Front Command base in Ramla, southeast of Tel Aviv, with what it described as a volley of “advanced rockets”.

The Israeli-Lebanese front has seen a sharp military escalation, with Hezbollah intensifying attacks along the border and deeper inside Israel in response to Israeli air strikes on several areas in Lebanon, including the south, the Bekaa Valley and Beirut’s southern suburbs.

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