Israel says it struck around 100 Hezbollah rocket launchers

On Thursday, the Israeli forces reportedly targeted some 100 rocket launchers while continuing to bomb Hezbollah locations.

In addition to the launchers, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said in a statement that it struck “additional terrorist infrastructure sites, consisting of approximately 1000 barrels that were ready to be used in the immediate future to fire toward Israeli territory.”

Israel reportedly carried out at least 52 attacks in the southern region of Lebanon between 9 and 10 p.m. local time, according to the state-run National News Agency of Lebanon.

Hezbollah, an organization supported by Iran, claimed earlier on Thursday to have carried out at least 17 strikes on military locations in northern Israel.

In his televised address on Thursday, Hassan Nasrallah said of Tuesday and Wednesday's attacks: “The enemy crossed all rules, laws and red lines. It didn't care about anything at all, not morally, not humanely, not legally."

“This is massacre, a major aggression against Lebanon, its people, its resistance, its sovereignty, and its security. It can be called war crimes or a declaration of war - whatever you choose to name it, it is deserving and fits the description. This was the enemy's intention,” he added.

Hassan Nasrallah, the head of Hezbollah, had earlier said that the deadly explosions that occurred earlier this week "crossed all red lines" and accused Israel of essentially declaring war.

Pagers and walkie-talkies exploded simultaneously across the nation on Tuesday and Wednesday; according to Lebanese authorities, these attacks claimed the lives of 37 people and injured 3,000 more. Israel has not claimed responsibility for them.

US State Secretary Antony Blinken urged moderation from all parties.

"We don't want to see any escalatory actions by any party" that would make the goal of achieving a ceasefire in Gaza more difficult, he said as he joined European foreign ministers in Paris to discuss the widening crisis.