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Hezbollah on Saturday asserted a rocket strike on northern Israel, the initial after heavy Israeli strikes pounded Beirut's southerly hinterlands overnight. "Defending Lebanon and its folks, and reacting to the savage" Israeli assaults "on cities and towns and also civilians", Hezbollah boxers targeted kibbutz Kabri in northerly Israel "with a salvo of Fadi-1 rockets", the group said in a statement. lg/jsa.