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Hezbollah has confirmed that it has fired missiles and drones at Israel. The group said they carried out the attack in retaliation for the assassination of Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
Meanwhile, earlier the Israeli army said in a statement that they are targeting Lebanon in response to Hezbollah’s projectile attacks.
The Israeli army said the projectile fired by Hezbollah landed in an open area of ​​Israeli territory.
Hezbollah is a politically influential Shiite Muslim organization that controls Lebanon’s most powerful armed forces.
It was established in the early 1980s by Iran, the most influential Shiite power in the region, to oppose Israel.
Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was killed in an attack by the US and Israel on Saturday. At least 48 leaders, including Ali Khamenei, were killed in the attack, US President Donald Trump said. He also said that their campaign is ‘progressing very well and rapidly’.
After the death of Ayatollah Khamenei, the current leaders of Iran expressed their desire to negotiate with the United States, said Mr. Trump.
He said that he himself is willing to sit in a meeting with them.
