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Lebanon's Hezbollah terror group fired a large barrage of rockets at northern Israel on Friday night, as the country braces for an expected retaliatory attack by Iran or its proxies to anallegedIsraeli strike in Syria that killed several Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps members.
A statement from the Iran-backed terror group claiming responsibility for the rocket fire on the Galilee Panhandle said Hezbollah operatives launched dozens of Katyushas at Israel Defense Forces artillery positions in northern Israel.
The military said around 40 rockets were launched, some of which were intercepted, while others impacted open areas or fell short in Lebanon.
Hezbollah also fired several projectiles from Lebanon at the Upper Galilee earlier in the day, which, according to the IDF, caused no injuries.
"We've done something that I was very proud of. I've engaged with NATO for my whole career. We were able to expand NATO, and we have 2,000 miles of border because you have two Nordic nations having joined NATO. You have a whole range of NATO countries along the Russian border."Biden went on to argue that a stalemate in Congress over his $61 billion military aid package for Kiev is "very dangerous" for the bloc's unity, accusing his former US leader Trump of virtually holding the measure - and the entire Republican party - hostage.
Comment: And so Iran may choose not to attack Israel, as a number of analysts have highlighted, despite what the Western media is wont to wail, instead it may just tighten security closer to home - as it might be doing in this incident - thus pushing the price of oil ever further: