Israel army says it hit Hezbollah arms factories in overnight Beirut strikes
The Israeli military says it hit several Hezbollah weapons production facilities in overnight strikes on southern Beirut’s Dahiyeh.
“Overnight, the IAF [air force] conducted intelligence-based strikes on several weapons storage and manufacturing facilities belonging to the Hezbollah terrorist organisation in the area of Dahiyeh,” the military said in a statement.
Lebanese state media reported that six buildings were levelled in at least 17 Israeli strikes during the night.
Hezbollah’s drone attacks are ‘difficult to detect and intercept'
The siren sounded off twice yesterday in Tel Aviv, and what we understand is that in addition to about 135 rockets, Hezbollah has been sending out drone attacks.
These drones are flying low, they’re manoeuvring, and they’re very difficult to detect and intercept. And so what is happening is, as soon as a drone is seen or detected in the sky, sirens go off in all sorts of areas, and people really consider them the most dangerous, far more than the rockets.
We’ve also seen a difference in the rockets that are being fired by Hezbollah. They’re more precise, they’re larger. They have a bigger impact when they do reach their targets, as we saw yesterday in Israel’s northern district Acre when a factory was hit and caught fire.
Four injured after Hezbollah rocket attacks on Israel
The hospital in the Israeli city of Nahariya has announced that it received four people who were injured by rocket shrapnel in Western Galilee, with two in moderate condition and two sustaining minor injuries.
Hezbollah has claimed multiple attacks so far today, with some of the latest saying it launched rockets on Safad and Nahariya, with another claiming to target the “Zevulon military industries base north of Haifa with a missile salvo”.
Videos of rockets being intercepted over Safad are circulating on social media.
Israel asks northern settlements to limit their movements
Israel has asked about 25 towns in the Upper Galilee region in the north of the country to reduce movements in settlement areas, avoid gatherings and stay near protected zones, according to Israel’s Channel 12.
In recent days, Tel Aviv and northern areas, including Haifa, have increasingly been targeted by missiles and rockets fired from Lebanon, with at least 135 rockets launched towards Israel on Wednesday alone.
Targeted assassination shows no front line in escalating war
It appears that the Israeli strike on a car near the Lebanese village of Aley some 12km (7 miles) east of Beirut was yet another targeted assassination.
At the site of the strike, we are on the main highway that links the capital, Beirut, to the east of the country, including the Bekaa region and all the way to the Syrian capital, Damascus. So, this is a main road which people use. When we arrived at the scene, the car was still in flames.
We understand at least one person was killed and some reports are suggesting that two people were killed. This happened a short time ago and we do not know the identities of the people targeted. The Lebanese army is deployed on the ground with forensic teams.
We’ve seen many attacks like this for more than a year. An attack like this shows that there is really no front line in what is an escalating war between Israel and Hezbollah.
