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. (0:30 a.m. 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.
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. .
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.
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.”
Wounded
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.
According to Israeli police, of the 19 injured hospitalized, 4 suffered moderate injuries and the other 15 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.
