Skies Are Lit Up Over Northern Israel As Hezbollah Fires Dozens Of Rockets

– Skies Are Lit Up Over Northern Israel As Hezbollah Fires Dozens Of Rockets

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2045ET: Hezbollah in the overnight hours has launched dozens of rockets toward Beit Hillel settlement in northern Israel, possibly over 50, triggering Israel’s Iron Dome anti-air defense system.

The sky has been lighting up over northern Galilee Sunday morning with the intercepts, as several social media videos show.

Despite many intercepts, Israeli media is reporting that there were several impacts as a result, and any potential casualties are as yet unknown, but multiple fires reportedly broke out in northern Israel.

Steady cross-border rocket fire has been going since Friday, as Reuters reported: “Hezbollah said it had fired a surface-to-air missile at an Israeli warplane flying in Lebanese airspace overnight and forced it to turn back. Its forces also carried out two artillery attacks and two rocket strikes at military positions in northern Israel, it said.”

But so far all of this is looking limited and contained, amid continued fears that things could slide into all-out war in the region involving Iran.

Meanwhile, speculation has abounded as to potential increased Russian defense support to Iran amid the standoff with Israel in the wake of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh’s assassination this week…

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The US embassy in Lebanon has issued an alert warning American citizens to exit Lebanon on “any ticket available” as the likelihood of a major war between Israel and Hezbollah as well as Iran grows.

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