Israel’s navy mentioned Hezbollah fired round 250 projectiles into its territory from Lebanon on Sunday, with the militants saying their assaults focused the Tel Aviv space and Israel’s south.
The Iran-backed group mentioned in a press release that it had “launched, for the primary time, an aerial assault utilizing a swarm of assault drones on the Ashdod naval base” in southern Israel.
Later, it mentioned it fired “a barrage of superior missiles and a swarm of assault drones” at a “navy goal” in Tel Aviv, and had additionally launched a volley of missiles on the Glilot military intelligence base within the metropolis’s suburbs. Hezbollah has beforehand reported assaults in opposition to the Glilot base.
The Israeli navy didn’t touch upon the precise assault claims when contacted by AFP.
However it mentioned earlier that air raid sirens had sounded in a number of areas in central and northern Israel, together with within the Tel Aviv suburbs.
The military later advised AFP round 250 projectiles that had been fired by Hezbollah have crossed from Lebanon into Israel, updating the determine from 160 earlier on Sunday. A few of the projectiles had been shot down.
The navy mentioned the very best variety of projectiles, 350, was recorded on September 24, 2024.
Since September 23, Israel has intensified its Lebanon air marketing campaign, later sending in floor troops in opposition to Hezbollah in southern Lebanon. The struggle adopted practically a 12 months of restricted exchanges of fireside initiated by Hezbollah in help of its ally Hamas after the Palestinian group’s October 7, 2023 assault on Israel, which sparked the Gaza struggle.
Medical companies reported that at the very least 11 folks had been wounded in Israel, together with a person in a “average to severe” situation.
The Palestine Purple Crescent mentioned 13 folks had been injured on the refugee camp of Tulkarem within the Israeli-occupied West Financial institution after an interceptor missile fell on a number of homes.
It added the accidents had been “minor to average”, together with burns, shrapnel and bruises.
AFP photos from Petah Tikva, close to Tel Aviv, confirmed a number of broken and burned-out vehicles, and a home pockmarked by shrapnel.
The wave of projectiles follows at the very least 4 lethal Israeli strikes within the coronary heart of Beirut prior to now week, together with one which killed Hezbollah spokesman Mohammed Afif.
In a speech on Wednesday, Hezbollah chief Naim Qassem mentioned the response to the current strikes on the capital “should be anticipated on central Tel Aviv”.
Lebanon’s well being ministry says at the very least 3,670 folks have been killed within the nation since October 2023, most of them since September this 12 months.
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