At least 19 people were injured overnight from Friday to Saturday in Tira, central Israel, when a rocket fell on a building, authorities announced. “This is the result of a direct strike from a Hezbollah rocket in the Arab Israeli town of Tira, injuring 19 civilians,” the Israeli Foreign Ministry wrote on its X account, showing images of an explosion and ‘a building partially gutted in the night.
Information to remember:
- 19 people injured in Tira, Israel, after rocket hits building
- An attack claimed by Hezbollah
- Israel announces it has intercepted three drones over the Red Sea
- Ayatollah Ali Khamenei promised on Saturday to respond to any attack by Israel and its ally, the United States
Israel says it intercepted three drones over the Red Sea
The Israeli army announced on Saturday that it had intercepted three unidentified drones approaching its territory from the east above the Red Sea.
“Three drones which had been fired from the East were intercepted over the Red Sea,” the army said in a statement, adding that they had been destroyed “before entering the territory”. In recent weeks, several drone attacks on Israel have been claimed by pro-Iranian groups in Iraq.
Iranian leader Khamenei threatens to retaliate against any attack against Iran or its allied groups
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei vowed Saturday to respond to any attacks by Israel and its ally the United States against Iran or its allied groups in the region.
“The enemies, both the United States and the Zionist regime, must know that they will certainly receive a scathing response to their actions against Iran, the Iranian nation and the resistance front,” Ayatollah Khamenei said during of a speech to students in Tehran.
Hezbollah claims to have fired rockets at intelligence base near Tel Aviv
Lebanese Hezbollah claimed responsibility for rocket attacks carried out shortly before dawn on Saturday at a military intelligence base near Tel Aviv, in central Israel.
At 2:30 a.m. (00:30 GMT), Hezbollah fighters “fired a salvo of rockets at the Glilot base of Military Intelligence Unit 8200 in the suburbs of Tel Aviv,” the pro-Iranian movement said in a statement.
Four suffered moderate injuries and the other fifteen suffered minor injuries.
According to Israeli police, of the 19 injured hospitalized, four suffered moderate injuries and the other fifteen suffered minor injuries. The army said on Telegram that it had identified three projectiles fired from Lebanon towards central Israel and had intercepted several of them. Tira, a predominantly Arab town, is located about 25 km northeast of Tel Aviv, near the border with the occupied West Bank.
The war that has been raging since October 7, 2023 in the Gaza Strip has spread to Lebanon, where Israel has been carrying out massive airstrikes since September 23 against the Shiite movement Hezbollah, an ally of Palestinian Hamas. Israel says it wants to neutralize Hezbollah in southern Lebanon to allow the return of some 60,000 inhabitants of the north of its territory, displaced by incessant rocket fire since the start of the war in Gaza.
On Thursday, rocket fire from Lebanon killed seven people in Metoula, in northern Israel, including four Thai agricultural workers.
