The strikes continued this Sunday on Israel. Lebanese Hezbollah said it launched missiles at an Israeli army intelligence base on the outskirts of Tel Aviv, the second such attack in the area on Sunday. Hezbollah fighters launched “a salvo of missiles” at “Glilot base”, the headquarters of Military Intelligence Unit 8,200, “in the suburbs of Tel Aviv”, the pro-Iranian group said in open war against the Jewish state since September, in a press release.
In the morning, air raid sirens were sounded in many areas of northern and central Israel. The Israeli army said that nearly 160 Hezbollah projectiles were fired this Sunday morning. Among them, 18 were identified over the center of the country and around 30 others over the north, some of which were intercepted.
Magen David Adom, the Israeli equivalent of the Red Cross, announced that it had provided treatment to two people, including a 70-year-old woman who was moderately injured. Israeli police reported several projectile or debris impacts after their interception.
Faced with this conflagration, the international community is once again calling for an end to hostilities. Visiting Beirut, the head of European diplomacy, Josep Borrell, called on Sunday for an “immediate ceasefire” between Israel and Hezbollah, believing that Lebanon was “on the verge of collapse”.
“We see only one possible path: an immediate ceasefire and the full implementation of United Nations Security Council Resolution 1701,” having ended, in 2006, the previous war between Israel and the Lebanese movement, he declared after a meeting with the President of the Lebanese Parliament, Nabih Berri. For his part, the head of French diplomacy, Jean-Noël Barrot, called on Israel and the Lebanese to seize a “window of opportunity” which was opening in order to conclude a ceasefire.
