Hezbollah unleashes 100 rockets into Israel as IDF calls up extra troops for invasion and orders more Lebanese villages to evacuate hours after Iranian missile barrage - as world holds its breath amid growing WW3 fears
Hezbollah has launched more than 100 rockets into Israel, with the group claiming it has targeted soldiers massing on the border as the Israeli Defence Forces ordered more troops and armoured units to join its ground invasion of Lebanon.
The militant group said this morning it had confronted Israeli forces who were infiltrating the southern villages of Adaisseh and Maroun al-Ras, forcing them to retreat - though Israel has not confirmed this.
The Iran-backed group also said that its fighters had targeted 'a large infantry force' in Misgav Am across the border with 'rockets and artillery', as well as troop gatherings in three other locations, one with Burkan short-range ballistic missiles.
Hezbollah's media officer Mohammad Afif declared the group was only in 'round one' of its fight against the IDF and sought to dispel speculation that it had been weakened by ongoing Israeli attacks.
'Our forces and resistance are fully prepared to confront and resist the enemy. I tell everyone that the resistance is fine and the command and control system is fine.
'What happened in Misgav Am, Maroun al-Ras and Adaisseh today is only the beginning,' he said.
It comes as the IDF presses on with its brutal bombardment of Hezbollah positions across Lebanon, with at least five powerful explosions rocking southern Beirut this morning.
Hundreds of thousands of Lebanese civilians are fleeing north while Britons and other foreign nationals are rushing to escape the country after the IDF warned those living in the south to evacuate their homes.
Meanwhile, Israel's military is preparing a 'significant retaliation' to yesterday's shocking attack by Iran that saw nearly 200 ballistic missiles streak across the Middle East and rain down on Israel last night.
The region is edging closer to an all-out war that is already drawing in allies on both sides - with British jets used to counter Iran's strikes, which were fired in retaliation to attacks on the Islamic Republic's Hezbollah allies in Lebanon in recent days.
Reports suggest Israel, which has vowed to 'make Iran pay', could go after the Islamic Republic's oil facilities.
Iran is the third biggest producer of crude oil in the OPEC group of oil-producing countries and is heavily reliant on its oil and gas exports to prop up its ailing economy amid years of sanctions.
Meanwhile, former Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett this morning called for a decisive strike to destroy Iran's nuclear facilities.
'We must act now to destroy Iran's nuclear program, its central energy facilities, and to fatally cripple this terrorist regime,' Bennett wrote on X just hours after the attack on Israel on Tuesday.
'We have the justification. We have the tools. Now that Hezbollah and Hamas are paralysed, Iran stands exposed.
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