By Desmond Nleya
As the tension in the Middle East continue to grow, Hezbollah on Sunday launched hundreds of rockets at Israel while Israeli claimed it struck Lebanon with 100 jets to thwart the attack.
Reports coming from sources indicate that missiles were visible curling up through the dawn sky, dark vapour trails behind them, as an air raid siren sounded in Israel and a distant blast lit the horizon, while smoke rose over houses in Khiam in southern Lebanon.
Three deaths were confirmed in Lebanon and one in Israel, with both sides indicating that there could be more strikes to come.
Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said the Iranian-backed group’s barrage, a reprisal for the assassination of senior commander Fuad Shukr last month, had been completed “as planned”.
However, the group would assess the impact of its strikes and “if the result is not enough, then we retain the right to respond another time”, he said.
Israel’s foreign minister said the country did not seek a full-scale war, but Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned: “This is not the end of the story.”
Earlier, Netanyahu had said: “We are determined to do everything we can to defend our country … whoever harms us – we harm him”.
With Inputs from Reuters
