Hezbollah targeted military base near Tel Aviv: Nasrallah
The chief of the Lebanese group Hassan Nasrallah has just given a televised address on Hezbollah’s large drone and rocket attacks. Nasrallah said the group had targeted an Israeli base near Tel Aviv. He said this was the first time Hezbollah had sent drones to Israel from the Bekaa region.
The Hezbollah chief says the Israeli military base targeted was about 100km (62 miles) from the Israel-Lebanon border. The “main target for the operation” inside Israel was “the Glilot base – the main Israeli military intelligence base”, Nasrallah said.
He said the Israeli military had started striking Lebanon 30 minutes before the group’s operations, adding the areas targeted had nothing to do with the operation.
In his televised speech, the Hezbollah chief said the group had no plans to hit targets in Tel Aviv, including Ben Gurion airport and the Israeli Defence Ministry building. He added that while the Lebanese group had no intention to use precision missiles in today’s attack, it may use them in the near future.
Israel says ‘no hits’ on base near Tel Aviv targeted by Hezbollah
The Israeli army says Hezbollah has failed to strike a military intelligence base near Tel Aviv that the Lebanese armed group’s leader says was the target of a rocket and drone barrage.
“I can confirm that there were no hits at the Glilot base,” a spokesperson for the Israeli military told the AFP news agency.
Nasrallah denies Israel destroyed thousands of Hezbollah rocket launchers
The Hezbollah chief rejects Israeli claims that its military has destroyed thousands of the Lebanese group’s rocket launchers.
“Talk about how the resistance [Hezbollah] was going to launch 8,000 or 6,000 rockets and drones and that [Israel] thwarted this … are false claims,” Nasrallah said, adding that “dozens of rocket launchers” were destroyed.
He said the armed group would assess the impact of its rocket and drone attack on Israeli military targets before determining whether it would carry out further attacks to avenge its slain commander Fuad Shukr.
Nasrallah said the group had been able to carry out its attack “as planned”, denying statements by the Israeli military that its preemptive strikes had stopped a wider attack.
Homes damaged in northern Israel after Hezbollah attack: Report
An AFP news agency’s photographer in Acre, an Israeli city 20km (12 miles) from the Lebanese border, reported damage to three homes from a Hezbollah rocket that struck a roof, with shrapnel smashing windows and destroying a bed.
“There were explosions in the area of Haifa,” said Abigail Levy, a resident of the coastal city further south. “I was stopped and was told not to go to the beach.”
AFPTV footage from early on Sunday showed dozens of interceptor rockets being launched into dense clouds above the Upper Galilee in northern Israel.
