The Israeli military campaign against Hezbollah in Lebanon intensified today with hundreds of air strikes reportedly hitting targets from southern Lebanon to the Bekaa Valley and Hermel on Lebanon’s northern border with Syria. The Israeli military announced that it hit some 800 targets, saying it was going after Hezbollah weapons sites, reported AP. Some strikes hit residential areas of towns in the south and the eastern Bekaa Valley. One strike hit a wooded area as far away as Byblos in central Lebanon, more than 80 miles from the border north of Beirut.
At the same time, Hezbollah said in a statement that it fired dozens of rockets toward Israel, including at military bases. It also targeted for a second day the facilities of the Rafael defense firm, headquartered in Haifa.
