Israel has launched air strikes in Lebanon and is restricting gatherings in the city of Haifa and other northern areas as it continues to attack targets linked to Hezbollah.
Dozens of fighter jets started "extensively" striking southern Lebanon "following detection of Hezbollah preparing to fire toward Israeli territory", Israel Defense Forces (IDF) spokesman Rear Adm Daniel Hagari said.
- Hezbollah claims attack on Israel’s Ramat David Airbase
In a statement on Telegram, the Lebanese group said it fired dozens of missiles at the Ramat David Airbase in northern Israel.
Hezbollah said the assault was a response to Israel’s repeated attacks on Lebanon as well as in support of Palestinians in Gaza.
In a separate post, the group noted that Ramat David is the airbase where Israel’s Defense Minister Yoav Gallant said on Wednesday that the “centre of gravity” in Israel’s war has shifted to its northern border with Lebanon.
At least 15 rockets were fired during a second rocket attack on Israeli territory from Lebanon, the Dubai-based Al Arabiya TV channel reported.
As noted by the Qatari Al Jazeera TV channel, the target of the shelling were cities in the northern part of the Jewish state. The Israel Defense Forces twice reported the activation of sirens warning of air danger in the north of the country.
The Israeli military recorded the launch of about 10 shells in the direction of the northern regions of Israel from Lebanon, the army press service reported.
ReplyDeleteAccording to Chanel 14, Hezbollah has significantly expanded its missile launch range. The latest salvo fired more than 100 missiles, some of them large-caliber, Al Arabiya said.
DeleteHezbollah movement launched a missile attack on Israel's largest airbase, Ramat David. This was a response to the IDF shelling of the southern regions of Lebanon, which resulted in the death of civilians.
ReplyDelete“The Islamic resistance attacked the Ramat David airbase with dozens of Fadi-1 and Fadi-2 missiles,” the movement said in a statement on its Telegram channel.
The Shiite Hezbollah movement reported a second massive rocket strike on the Israeli Ramat David Air Base, according to a statement posted on the movement's Telegram channel.
ReplyDelete"In this attack, Hezbollah used two types of rockets: Fadi-1, with a range of 80 km, and Fadi-2, with a range of 105 km," the statement says.