Israel accused Hezbollah of launching approximately 230 projectiles from Lebanon into Israeli territory on Thursday. Hezbollah, meanwhile, claimed to have carried out 32 varied attacks throughout the day, including rocket salvos on Israeli settlements and military bases and attacks on Israeli soldiers carrying out ground operations in southern Lebanon. Hezbollah was not the only Iran-backed group to have claimed to have attacked Israel on Thursday. In a separate incident, the Islamic Resistance in Iraq, an umbrella group of several Iran-backed militias, claimed responsibility for a drone attack in southern Israel. The Israeli military said it intercepted a drone over southern Israel and no one was injured. The Israeli strikes in Beirut late Thursday into early Friday local time targeted senior Hezbollah official Hashem Safieddine, an Israeli official told CNN. Safieddine is one of the possible successors of late Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah, who was killed in an Israeli strike last week. An Israeli airstrike Thursday night killed the leader of the Hamas network in the Tulkarem area in the West Bank, the Israel Defense Forces said. The IDF alleged that Zahi Yaser Abd al-Razeq Oufi planned and led a car bombing in Ateret, an Israeli settlement in the occupied West Bank, and took part in other attacks against Israelis in the West Bank Other local Hamas operatives were also killed in Thursday's strike, the IDF said. Hamas condemned the attack, but did not confirm if Oufi was killed. — CNN
