Decision comes in response to significant escalation of hostilities, with Hezbollah claiming responsibility for firing over 320 rockets at northern Israel
Soon afterwards, Hezbollah announced it had launched an attack on Israel with a "large number of drones" as an initial response to the killing of Fouad Shukur
The event started at about 5.30 PM with cloudy weather and wonderful wind, and there were about 250 people participating in that divine and pious celebration.
According to the Xinhua news agency, the IDF reported that rockets, causing sirens in Upper Galilee of northern Israel, landed in open fields with no immediate casualties reported.
In an operational update on the northern border, Jonathan Conricus called Israel's response "measured, tactical and confined to the areas near the border"
The Shia militant group announced on Wednesday that it had launched missile strikes against three Israeli locations, including a center for Israeli soldiers and a surveillance and reconnaissance system south of Al-Manara in northern Israel, resulting in "several casualties."