Thirty-five rockets launched at Israel from Lebanon: Army
The Israeli military says about 35 rockets have been fired from Lebanon on northern Israel in the afternoon. The army said some of the rockets were intercepted, adding that some of them landed. It gave no further information. The barrage triggered aerial warning sirens.
The army said earlier it had intercepted dozens of other rockets in multiple waves of attacks launched from Lebanon.
Lebanon says 9 dead in Israeli attacks on two villages
Lebanon’s Health Ministry said Israeli attacks on two villages, one north and another south of Beirut, have killed at least nine people.
An “Israeli enemy strike on Maaysrah”, a Shia-majority village in a mostly Christian mountain area north of Beirut, killed “five people and wounded 14 others”, the ministry said in a statement.
It added separately that “four people were killed and 14 others wounded” in an “Israeli enemy strike” on Barja in the Chouf district south of the capital.
Lebanese army soldiers deploy around a building hit by an Israeli airstrike in Barja, Lebanon, on Saturday, October 12.
Hezbollah fired about 320 projectiles into Israel over Yom Kippur: Israeli army
“Throughout the weekend of Yom Kippur, approximately 320 projectiles that were fired by the Hezbollah terrorist organisation crossed from Lebanon into Israel,” the military said in a statement.
Yom Kippur, Judaism’s holiest day, ended at nightfall.
Hezbollah claims yesterdays drone attack on Tel Aviv
As we reported yesterday, two drones made their way from Lebanese territory into the airspace around the Israeli city, causing damage to a building and a small power outage.
In a statement published moments ago, Hezbollah has claimed responsibility for this attack, saying that it launched a “squadron of suicide drones on the outskirts of Tel Aviv”.
This marks one of the rare instances of Hezbollah weapons penetrating far enough into Israeli territory to threaten its largest city.
