Hezbollah intensifies rocket attacks on Israeli military targets

Ahram Online , Monday 14 Oct 2024

Hezbollah intensified its retaliatory attacks on Israel on Monday, launching rockets and missiles on Israeli military encampments, barracks, and troop groupings amid intense Israeli strikes on Lebanon.

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A picture taken from the southern Lebanese city of Tyre shows rockets being fired from the region toward Israel. AFP

 

Sirens were activated in more than 182 cities and towns across central and northern Israel, including Margaliot, Misgav, Akka, Haifa, and Shatula, Israeli media reported.

Hezbollah had announced a series of rocket attacks targeting Israeli army positions, including a gathering of forces at the Roisat Al-Alam site in the occupied Kfar Shouba Hills and in the Israel-occupied Shebaa Farms.

The Lebanese resistance group said it had also hit three Merkava tanks advancing towards Aita al-Shaab, resulting in casualties among the Israeli forces.

Hezbollah said it also launched a barrage of rockets at the north Israeli town of Safed. 

Hezbollah fighters fired a "big rocket salvo" at Safed, the group said in a statement, adding it was "in defence of Lebanon" and in response to Israeli attacks on Lebanese "cities, villages, and civilians."

This follows a recent statement from Hezbollah, saying it has targeted an Israeli army gathering east of Markaba town with a rocket barrage. 

Additionally, Hezbollah reported launching rockets at the Israeli settlement of Kiryat Shmona.  

The Israeli army reported that approximately 15 rockets were launched from Lebanon towards the Upper Galilee, with some intercepted while others fell in open areas. 

Sirens had also been activated in several towns near the Sea of Galilee, as well as in Safed and surrounding areas. 

The Israeli army also said air raid sirens were activated across central Israel, including the commercial hub of Tel Aviv, as projectiles were fired across the border from Lebanon.  

"Sirens sounded in several areas in central Israel due to projectiles fired from Lebanon into Israeli territory," the army said in a statement.  

Israeli media said that one person was severely injured east of Tel Aviv.

 

Air traffic has also stopped at Ben Gurion Airport, Israel's busiest airport located south of Or Yehuda city, in the Tel Aviv district of Israel.

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