Hezbollah bombards occupied Golan Heights following Israeli strike on Baalbek

News Desk - The cradle 

The rocket attack came in response to Israel’s latest bombing of the eastern Lebanese city of Baalbek

Hezbollah launched dozens of rockets at Israeli sites in occupied Golan Heights in the early hours of 24 March, following Israel’s latest attack on the eastern Lebanese city of Baalbek shortly before. 

“In support of our steadfast Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip and in support of their brave and honorable resistance, and in response to the bombing of an area in the city of Baalbek, the Mujahideen of the Islamic Resistance targeted at 1:10 AM on Sunday 03/24/2024, the missile and artillery base in Yoav and the Keila barracks (the headquarters of the Air and Missile Defense Command),” Hezbollah said in a statement. 

More than 60 Katyusha rockets targeted “a force from the Golani Brigade that was training after its return from the Gaza Strip,” the statement added. 

Israeli warplanes had struck the Al-Asseira area in Baalbek at around midnight on Saturday, marking the fourth attack on eastern Lebanon since late last month. 

Lebanese news outlet Al-Markazia reported that a four-story building was targeted in the attack. At least three people were injured. 

It added that the attack targeted an area near the home of slain Hezbollah commander Hassan al-Lakkis, who was assassinated by extremist gunmen in Beirut’s southern suburbs in 2013. 

The Israeli army claimed it targeted a Hezbollah arms factory in the attack. 

Israel targeted a number of areas near Baalbek in Lebanon’s eastern Beqaa Valley less than two weeks ago, on 12 March. 

In late February, Israel hit eastern Lebanon for the first time since the start of the war after Hezbollah downed a $2 million Israeli Hermes drone in the country’s south. 

Washington and Paris have been trying to pressure Lebanon into a de-escalation agreement involving Hezbollah’s withdrawal from the border area. The proposed deal draws no significant concessions from Israel and has been described as one-sided and impartial by Lebanese officials. 

Earlier this month, the Lebanese state officially responded to the western proposal, calling it “a significant step towards achieving peace and security,” and demanding a full implementation of Resolution 1701 – drafted days before the end of the 2006 war between Hezbollah and Israel. 

Hezbollah has repeatedly vowed to continue attacking Israeli sites until the war on Gaza is brought to an end.