"We will increase the intensity, power, number and quality of our operations," said Safieddine at the funeral of Taleb Sami Abdallah, killed on Tuesday night, along with three other fighters, in an Israeli attack in southern Lebanon.
Safieddine's statements come after the Israeli army said that around 90 projectiles were fired from Lebanon into Israel today, after an Israeli attack killed a senior Hezbollah commander in southern Lebanon on Tuesday.
"Approximately 90 projectiles were identified [entering Israel] from Lebanon," the Israeli army said in a statement early in the morning, indicating that the number rose to around 160 in the early afternoon.
Several projectiles were intercepted, but others fell in northern Israel, causing fires in some places, the army added, without specifying the extent of the incident.
At around 10:00 (08:00 in Lisbon), rocket warning sirens sounded again in more than a dozen locations in northern Israel, a situation that later repeated itself.
Today's attack was one of the largest launched in number and scope from Lebanese territory since October, as for the first time the projectiles hit the city of Tiberias, 65 kilometers from the border, and other cities further away from the border region with Lebanon.
According to the Israeli emergency services, no injuries have been reported so far.
The Shiite group Hezbollah took responsibility for the attack, stressing that it was a response to the death of the group's militants in the Israeli attack in southern Lebanon.
Early this morning, Hezbollah announced the death of Taleb Sami Abdallah, known as Hajj Abou Taleb, one of the Shiite movement's main military commanders.
According to a Lebanese military source, cited by the France-Presse news agency (AFP), the air strike that killed four Shiite militants, including the commander, took place in the town of Jouaiyya, about 15 kilometers from the border with Israel, on Tuesday night. -fair.
The border between Israel and Lebanon is experiencing the highest peak of tension since 2006 and the attacks have already caused the death of more than 400 people, the majority on the Lebanese side and from the ranks of Hezbollah, which confirmed around 310 deaths of militiamen, some in Syria, in addition to around 90 civilians.
In Israel, 25 people died in the north of the country, 10 of them civilians.
Hostilities began in October, after the start of the war in the Gaza Strip, with Hezbollah demonstrating its solidarity with the Hamas group and other Palestinian Islamist movements.
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