BEIRUT (Dispatches) -- At least 340 rockets were launched from Lebanon into the Israeli occupied territories, Israeli media outlets reported on Monday.
According to Israeli army radio, the Lebanese Hezbollah movement fired hundreds of rockets which wounded at least 11 people. 
Hezbollah said it “launched, for the first time, an aerial attack using a swarm of attack drones on the Ashdod naval base” in southern occupied territories.
It fired “a barrage of advanced missiles and a swarm of attack drones” at a “military target” in Tel Aviv, and also launched a volley of missiles at the Glilot army intelligence base in the city’s suburbs.  
Various resistance media outlets said 51 operations were executed, a record number, surpassing the record of 48 a month ago.
Hezbollah’s projectiles “reached a record depth of 150 kilometers with the bombing of the Asdod naval base with drones and the Palmachim Base south of Tel Aviv with missiles.
“Sirens went off 543 times from over 350 rockets, sending four million settlers into shelter and inflicting significant damage and casualties,” reports said. 
On Monday, Hezbollah hit settlements across the northern occupied territories, including Kiryat Shmona, Metulla, Manara, Safad, Maalot-Tarshiha, Meron, and Avivim.
In southern Lebanon, Hezbollah repelled Israeli advancements on the cities of Bayyada, Deir Mimas, Aita al-Shaab, and Khiam. Six advanced Israeli Merkava tanks were destroyed, three in one operation. The Israeli military was also forced to retreat from Bayyada and Khiam.
The Israeli army said that some 20 rockets were fired from Lebanon towards  Upper Galilee and Western Galilee areas on Monday morning. Medical services said one settler was injured with shrapnel wounds in Nahariya.
The salvos came after the occupying regime of Israel killed at least 29 people in a strike in central Beirut on Sunday, while at least 66 others were wounded, according to Lebanon’s Ministry of Public Health.
In a speech on Wednesday, Hezbollah chief Sheikh Naim Qassem said the response to Israeli strikes on the capital “must be expected on central Tel Aviv”.
Two senior Zionist officials and two U.S. officials told Axios on Monday that Israel is on the verge of agreeing to a ceasefire deal with Lebanon.
In Beirut, top EU diplomat Josep Borrell called for an immediate ceasefire, after a U.S. envoy said last week that a deal was “within our grasp”.
Far-right Zionist security minister Itamar Ben-Gvir urged the occupying regime’s prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu to reject the U.S.-backed proposal.
Slamming it as “a grave mistake”, the extremist leader of Otzma Yehudit argued that agreeing to the deal would squander a “historic opportunity” to purportedly eliminate Hezbollah.  
He urged Netanyahu to heed the advice of military commanders on the ground and claimed, “It’s not too late to stop this agreement,” he added.  
According to the Times of Israel, Ben-Gvir has consistently opposed any ceasefires in both Gaza and Lebanon, even on a temporary basis. He has also repeatedly threatened to pull his party out of the coalition if the Zionist regime moves forward with such a deal.
The Zionist regime and Hezbollah have exchanged fire almost daily since the day after Hamas-led fighters attacked Israeli settlements on Oct. 7, 2023.
Israel launched a widespread bombardment of Lebanon two months ago, then a ground invasion. More than 3,500 people in Lebanon have been martyred, many of them civilians.
Eight people have been martyred in two Israeli strikes on the eastern Lebanese village of Al-Nabi Shayth in the Beqaa Valley and Baalbek District, the country’s National News Agency said Monday. The strikes targeted a house used to distribute aid to the displaced. 
Lebanon suspended school in Beirut and surrounding areas, citing the threat of Israeli strikes, while schools in several northern Israeli settlements switched to remote classes because of Hezbollah rocket fire.