Hezbollah fires several rockets at northern occupied Palestine close to the border with Lebanon

The Lebanese resistance movement Hezbollah has carried out rocket attacks on a town in northern occupied Palestine close to the border with Lebanon, in response to Israel’s continuous assaults against the Palestinian people in Gaza.

A Hezbollah statement reported that the group fired salvos of artillery rounds and rockets toward the Israeli town of Kiryat Shmona at 12:15 am on Thursday.

“In support of our steadfast Palestinian people in Gaza and in solidarity with their brave and honorable resistance, and in response to the Israeli enemy’s persistent targeting of villages and civilian homes, the fighters of the Islamic Resistance at 12:15 am on Thursday, December 21, 2023, targeted the settlement of Kiryat Shmona (the occupied town of Al-Khalsa) with a salvo of Katyusha rockets,” the statement said.

In a statement later in the day, the resistance group noted that its fighters launched incendiary rockets at the Biranit Woodlands in response to an earlier Israeli strike, reiterating that it would not hesitate to defend Lebanese villages and towns and would respond to the enemy’s aggressive actions.

The latest attacks came a day after the movement targeted multiple Israeli military positions in close proximity to the border between Lebanon and the occupied territories.

The resistance stressed that the operations took place in support of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip who have come under a relentless Israeli war.