The target is oh so symbolic, given the defense supposed to protect it. Lebanese Hezbollah claimed responsibility for rocket attacks on Saturday at a military intelligence base near Tel Aviv, in central Israel. At 2:30 a.m., Hezbollah fighters “fired a salvo of rockets at the Glilot base of Unit 8,200 of Military Intelligence in the suburbs of Tel Aviv,” the pro-Iranian movement said in a statement.
After a year of cross-border exchanges of fire in southern Lebanon, a “support front” opened by Hezbollah in solidarity with Palestinian Hamas in Gaza, the conflict between Israel and the Lebanese movement turned into open war on the 23 september. Since then, the Israeli army has continued intensive airstrikes on Hezbollah strongholds in Lebanon, notably the southern suburbs of the capital Beirut, and ground incursions by its soldiers into southern Lebanon, where violent clashes pitted them against Hezbollah fighters. .
19 injured in Tira
The pro-Iranian movement claims daily shootings on military bases or urban areas in Israeli territory. He thus claimed responsibility for several “salvos of rockets” fired “Saturday morning” at localities in northern Israel, particularly north of the city of Safed. At least 19 people were also injured when a rocket fell on a building in Tira, a predominantly Arab town near the border with the West Bank, according to Israeli authorities.
For its part, the Israeli army said on Saturday that sirens had been activated on its territory after the arrival of “suspicious aerial targets” from Lebanon. “The targets are under surveillance,” the army said, saying that “the incident is still ongoing.” »
