Hezbollah says launched new rocket barrage at Israeli-annexed Golan

Smoke billows after an Israeli strike on the southern Lebanese border village of Tayr Harfa on April 13, 2024, amid ongoing cross-border tensions as fighting continues between Israel and Hamas militants in the Gaza Strip. (Photo by KAWNAT HAJU / AFP)

BEIRUT, April 14, 2024 (AFP) – The Lebanon-based militant group Hezbollah said on Sunday that it had launched a fresh barrage of rockets towards the Israeli-annexed Golan Heights, hours after it joined in a major Iranian drone and missile attack targeting Israel.

Iran-backed Hezbollah, which has regularly traded cross-border fire with Israel since the start of the ongoing war in Gaza, said in a statement that it had launched “dozens of Katyusha rockets” at three Israeli military positions in the Golan, which Israel seized from Syria in the Six-Day War of 1967.