Hezbollah Hits Zionist Intel Base Near Tel Aviv
BEIRUT (Dispatches) --
Lebanon’s resistance movement Hezbollah said Tuesday it attacked Israel’s military intelligence base near Tel Aviv with a barrage of missiles.
Hezbollah fighters fired “a salvo of missiles” at the Glilot military base in the Tel Aviv suburbs, a statement by the group said.
They also targeted Israeli troops in four locations including near the Lebanese town of Khiam. Reports said Hezbollah fighters continued to battle Israeli forces on the outskirts of the southern Lebanese town.
On Monday, a Hezbollah missile attack on central Israeli occupied territories wounded five settlers and caused extensive damage in the Bnei Brak and Ramat Gan area.
The attack on the Tel Aviv district on Monday evening followed Israeli airstrikes on central Beirut.
Military expert Fayez al-Duwairi, a retired major general, said Hezbollah’s drone was armed with the Malak missile, which he described as “highly destructive”. Israeli media however said Tel Aviv was targeted with a Fateh-110 ballistic missile.
At least 35 projectiles were fired into the Israeli occupied territories from Lebanon on Tuesday, according to Israeli military statements.
Israel has stepped up its attacks on the Lebanese capital in recent days, targeting central Beirut three times.
On Monday evening, an Israeli strike on an apartment building in the densely populated area of Zuqaq al-Blat in central Beirut martyred at least five people, according to the health ministry.
The Israeli military on Tuesday carried out several air raids across Lebanon, including targeting several southern villages with white phosphorus shelling, according to Lebanon’s National News Agency (NNA).
NNA also reported that Hezbollah repelled advances by invading Israeli forces in south Lebanon, destroying three Merkava tanks and forcing a retreat.
More than 3,516 people have been martyred in Israeli attacks and at least 14,929 wounded since the start of the conflict a year ago.
The UN said Tuesday that over 200 children have been martyred in Lebanon since Israel escalated attacks targeting Lebanon in mid-September.
“Over the last two months in Lebanon, an average of three children have been killed every single day,” James Elder, spokesperson for the UN children’s agency, UNICEF, told reporters.
“Many, many more have been injured and traumatized,” he added, highlighting that in the past two months, more than 1,100 children had been wounded.
In the Gaza Strip, medical sources said 17 people had been martyred in Israeli airstrikes across various locations since dawn on Tuesday.
Yemen’s armed forces said they had launched a missile attack on another ship sailing in the Red Sea in retaliation for the Israeli regime’s savage wars in the Gaza Strip and Lebanon.
Military spokesman Brigadier General Yahya Saree said Yemeni forces used ballistic and naval missiles in the attack against the ship “Anadolu S” in the Red Sea, adding that “the hit was accurate and direct”.
Saree said the operation was carried out after the ship refused to respond to warnings that had been issued by the Yemeni naval forces.
He also noted that the vessel was targeted because the shipping company that owns it violated the ban of entry into the ports of occupied Palestine.
Saree reiterated that Yemeni armed forces will continue their operations until the Zionist regime halts its onslaught against Gaza, lifts the siege on the besieged enclave and ends the aggression on Lebanon.
The brutal military onslaught and the escalation have respectively claimed the lives of more than 43,900 Palestinians, mostly women and children.