Hezbollah Fires Rocket Barrage Into Israel as Blinken Mounts New De-Escalation Push

Militants in Lebanon launched about 40 rockets into Israel on Saturday—one of many largest such barrages in current months—because the Biden administration’s high diplomat arrived within the area to defuse an escalating Center East disaster ensuing from the warfare in Gaza.

The Israeli army stated it fired again at militants who had been launching rockets. Hezbollah, an Iranian-backed Lebanese armed group, stated it fired rockets at an Israeli commentary put up as an preliminary response to the killing of Hamas chief Saleh al-Arouri on Tuesday.