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Hezbollah on Saturday asserted a rocket strike on northerly Israel, the very first after hefty Israeli strikes battered Beirut's southerly suburban areas overnight. "Safeguarding Lebanon and also its own folks, and replying to the barbaric" Israeli assaults "on metropolitan areas as well as villages and civilians", Hezbollah fighters targeted kibbutz Kabri in northerly Israel "along with a barrage of Fadi-1 rockets", the group said in a statement. lg/jsa.