Hello and welcome to News Hour from the BBC World Service I'm Sean Lay.

Hezbollah has fired a barrage of rockets into Northern Israel comes after an Israeli strike overnight on a residential building in the southern

city and Abataya.

The Health Ministry in Lebanon said 10 people were killed in that attack.

The Israeli military says that around 55 rockets were launched into Israel

by Hezbollah targeting the community of Ailad Hashaha. Our Middle East analyst Sebastian

Usher joins me in the studio now. Sebastian talk us through the events of the last few hours in Lebanon.

Well this particular Israeli strike hit according to Israel the Israeli, a Hezbollah weapon storage facility in Nabatia, which is the big city down in the south of Lebanon.

It's a big Hezbollah stronghold. I mean obviously it's much more than that, but it is a place where there's strong support for Hezbollah.

It's very much a sheer area, obviously down in the south.

It's about 20 kilometers away from the border with Israel.

And what we've heard... from the border with Israel.

And what we've heard from eyewitnesses there

is that more than one missile hit this building,

which is amongst factories.

I believe there's a house and a warehouse.

And what the Lebanese authorities,

what the Lebanese health minister and what people there say is that amongst those

killed were four members of a family a Syrian family and then six Syrian

workers who would sleep in this warehouse and they say that

there was absolutely no trace of weapons belonging to Hezbollah there. We haven't heard which we usually do from Hezbollah if

their members have been killed. There's been nothing from Hezbollah on this which

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