Israel-Lebanon latest: Israel denies being behind pager attack as over 300 rockets fired over border
At least 39 people were killed and thousands injured after Hezbollah’s pagers and walkie-talkies exploded last week
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Israel has denied having any involvement with an exploding pager attack which killed dozens and injured thousands of people across Lebanon and Syria.
Israeli president Isaac Herzog said he “rejects out of hand any connection” to the audacious operation carried out against Hezbollah last week.
At least 39 people were injured and 3,000 were wounded after the Shi’ite militia’s pagers and walkie-talkies simultaneously detonated across the Middle East on Tuesday and Thursday.
On Sunday, Israel said it struck around 290 targets inside Lebanon after Hezbollah launched just over 100 rockets at northern Israel in the most intense skirmish since the war in Gaza began almost a year ago.
Israel closed schools and in many northern areas of the country and the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights early on Sunday, with reports of rockets hitting Haifa, a port city around 17 miles from the Lebanon border.
The exchange comes after Israel killed more than a dozen senior Hezbollah commanders in an air strike on the group’s stronghold of southern Beirut on Friday.
Top commander Ibrahim Aqil was slain alongside 15 other operatives after multiple missiles tore into the side of the apartment block he was in.
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His comments came a day after an Israeli airstrike on the Lebanese capital, Beirut, killed 31 people, including three children and seven women, according to the Lebanese health ministry.
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