Israel carried out its first air raids on Lebanese soil in years on Thursday, prompting Hezbollah to fire rockets back at the Jewish state the following day. Nasrallah described the air strikes this week as a “very dangerous development”, but said Hezbollah did not want war. Before Thursday, Israel’s last air strikes on Lebanon dated back to 2014, when warplanes struck territory near the Syrian border. Hezbollah’s volley of rockets at Israeli positions on Friday morning prompted retaliatory shelling from Israel, prompting UN peacekeepers to warn of “a very dangerous situation”. U.S. on Friday urged Lebanon’s government to prevent Hezbollah from firing rockets into Israel.

Source: The Hindu August 08, 2021 15:45 UTC