According to the IDF Spokesperson’s Unit, the rockets were fired in three barrages. Some of the rockets were intercepted. There are no reports of injuries.
The rocket barrage followed the IDF’s elimination of Mosab Khalaf, a senior terrorist in the Jamaa Islamiya terrorist organization who advanced a large number of terror attacks against Israel.
The IDF Spokesperson’s Unit said that “the Jamaa Islamiya terrorist organization recently planned and promoted a large number of terror attacks from Lebanese territory against Israel in the area of Har Dov, as well as additional areas in northern Israel.”
“The terrorist Mosab Khalaf cooperated with the branch of the Hamas terrorist organization in Lebanon, coordinating and carrying out terror attacks against Israel,” the IDF said.
“Khalaf’s elimination was carried out to harm the terrorist organization’s capability to carry out planned attacks against the State of Israel in the area of the northern border,” the statement concluded.
The elimination of Khalaf came hours after Sharif Suad, a resident of Ras al-Ein, an Arab village in the Galilee, was killed overnight Thursday as a result of an anti-tank missiles strike on the area of Har Dov in northern Israel.
Overnight, IAF fighter jets struck Hezbollah terror targets in the area of Chebaa in southern Lebanon, including a weapons storage facility and a launcher used by the terrorist organization. In addition, IDF soldiers fired to remove a threat in the area.
Furthermore, IAF fighter jets struck Hezbollah operational infrastructure in the area of Kfarchouba and a military compound in the area of Ain El Tineh in southern Lebanon.
