Around 80 Hezbollah rockets targeted several areas of northern Israel in three separate waves on July 16. The Israel Defence Forces (IDF) claimed a salvo of at least 40 rockets was fired toward the city of Kiryat Shmona. At least 20-30 rockets were also fired towards the Mount Meron area in the Upper Galilee, the IDF reported. The Hezbollah rocket barrage came as a “response” after Israeli forces killed at least five Syrians while targeting Hezbollah sites, as per reports. A prominent pro-Assad Syrian businessman, Baraa Katerji, was killed in an Israeli strike near the Lebanese-Syrian border on July 15. Meanwhile, Hezbollah Chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah called Israel a “cancerous tumour,” which he said would be removed by the current Palestinian generation.