At least 30 rockets were fired at Israel in the early hours of this morning, writes Ynet, stating that the targets of the barrage were in particular the Galilee and the Golan Heights. According to other reports, some rockets hit Mount Meron while others were intercepted. Warning sirens wailed in the north of the country. Hezbollah soon claimed responsibility for the action. In a statement, the terror group said it had attacked an Israeli military facility in the area. The attack was “a first response” to Israel's alleged killing of Hamas official Saleh al-Arouri in Lebanon last week, the organization said.
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Meanwhile, American diplomacy chief Antony Blinken is in Turkey today, the first stop on a trip that will take him to Israel, the occupied West Bank and Qatar, to demand more aid for Gaza and talk about how to can avoid a catastrophe Regional conflagration, three months after the start of the war between Israel and Hamas. This is the US Secretary of State's fourth mission since October, which promises to be very difficult following disagreements between the US and Israel over Tel Aviv's ongoing attacks on Gaza. At a meeting in November, Blinken told Netanyahu that the Israelis needed to accept a series of pauses in fighting in Gaza to bring more aid to the war zone. But Erdogan remains one of Israel's harshest critics because, for the strongman from Ankara, who has failed to play a mediating role between Israelis and Hamas, Israel is a “terrorist state” and the Islamist group a “group of liberators.”