Hezbollah hits Israel’s sites in Tel Aviv and nearby
Hezbollah resistance group fired at least 185 rockets and other projectiles into Israel on Sunday in response to recent deadly Israeli strikes on Beirut.
Hezbollah resistance group said on Sunday it launched missiles at an Israeli Army intelligence base in the Tel Aviv suburbs.
It also said it had “launched, for the first time, an aerial attack using a swarm of attack drones on the Ashdod naval base” in southern occupied territories.
Medical agencies reported that at least 11 people were wounded, including a man in a “moderate to serious” condition.
The wave of projectiles followed at least four deadly Israeli strikes in central Beirut in the past week, including one that killed Hezbollah spokesman Mohammed Afif.
The Lebanese Army, meanwhile, said that a soldier was killed on Sunday and 18 others injured as a result of an Israeli attack targeting an army center. Israeli strikes have killed 19 Lebanese soldiers in the last two months.
Since September 23, Israel has intensified its Lebanon air campaign, later sending in ground troops after nearly a year of limited exchanges of fire with Hezbollah.
Lebanon’s Health Ministry says at least 3,670 people have been killed in the country since October 2023, most of them since September this year.
Top EU diplomat Josep Borrell, who had traveled to Lebanon on Sunday, called for an immediate cease-fire in Lebanon.
Borrell held talks with parliament speaker Nabih Berri, who has led mediation efforts on behalf of ally Hezbollah.
“We see only one possible way ahead: an immediate cease-fire and the full implementation of United Nations Security Council Resolution 1701,” Borrell said after his meeting with Berri.
Under Resolution 1701, which ended the last Hezbollah-Israel war of 2006, only Lebanese troops and UN peacekeepers should be allowed to maintain a presence in the south.
It also called for Israel to withdraw troops from Lebanon.
“Back in September I came and was still hoping we could prevent a full-fledged war of Israel attacking Lebanon. Two months later Lebanon is on the brink of collapse,” Borrell said.