BEIRUT — Lebanon’s Hezbollah said Saturday it carried out 14 attacks since dawn targeting Israeli military positions, troops, and settlements in northern Israel.The group said the operations were launched in response to Israeli attacks on dozens of Lebanese cities, towns, and Beirut’s southern suburb.Hezbollah said it fired rocket barrages at Israeli troops at Aqaba Hill in the town of Maroun al-Ras in southern Lebanon, adding that the same area was targeted twice since early Saturday.The group also said its fighters launched rockets at the Israeli settlement of Kiryat Shmona after issuing an evacuation warning, and fired two rocket barrages at the settlement of Metula in northern Israel.In separate statements, Hezbollah said it targeted Israeli troops at Khazzan Hill near the town of Adaisseh in southern Lebanon twice, and launched rocket fire at Israeli forces near the municipality building of the town of Khiam.Hezbollah added that it fired rockets at the Ein Zeitim base in northern Israel and shelled Israeli troops west of the border town of Blida with artillery.The group also said it struck an Israeli armored vehicle near the Khiam detention center with a guided missile, claiming a direct hit.In the same area, Hezbollah said it targeted gatherings of Israeli vehicles and troops with rockets and struck Israeli positions at the newly established Blat site and at Nimr al-Jamal opposite the border town of Alma al-Shaab.Hezbollah began targeting Israeli military sites on March 2 in response to the U.S.-Israeli attacks on Iran that killed then-Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei in Tehran, as well as Israeli strikes on Lebanon, despite a ceasefire reached in November 2024.Israel expanded its campaign the same day with airstrikes on Beirut’s southern suburbs and areas in southern and eastern Lebanon.On March 3, Israel also launched a limited ground incursion into southern Lebanon alongside the ongoing joint military campaign with the United States against Iran that began on Feb. 28.
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