After heavy Israeli airstrikes with many casualties in Lebanon, the Iran-allied Hezbollah militia fired an unusually large number of rockets into Israel.
According to the Israeli army, about 240 projectiles had been counted by evening. Many were intercepted, but at least six people were injured, the rescue service said.
Images from the MDA medical department showed cars on fire in Petah Tikva. In the evening the sirens sounded again. Hezbollah said it fired two precision missiles at military targets in Tel Aviv and the surrounding area. There had been rocket alerts in many Israeli regions since the morning. According to the army, about 30 projectiles were fired within minutes at the coastal city of Haifa and the Western Galilee region alone, some of which were intercepted.
Borrell calls for more pressure on both warring parties
EU chief diplomat Josep Borrell called for more pressure on the warring parties during a visit to the Lebanese capital Beirut. Without a ceasefire, neither Israelis nor internally displaced persons in Lebanon would be able to return to their homeland, Borrell wrote after talks with Lebanese leaders at Beirut’s Platform Center. “This must stop, as well as Hezbollah’s attacks on Israeli communities,” Borrell said after talks with Prime Minister Najib Mikati and parliament speaker Nabih Berri, who is considered a confidant of Hezbollah.
According to the Health Ministry, 84 people were killed and 213 injured in Israeli airstrikes in Lebanon on Saturday. In Beirut alone, 27 people were killed, authorities announced on Sunday evening. Rescue efforts were still ongoing. There were still twenty deaths in Beirut on Saturday. The Hezbollah militia has been firing rockets into Israel since the Gaza war began over a year ago. Israel responds with massive air strikes and a ground offensive.
Israel regrets the shelling by the Lebanese army
On Sunday, the Israeli army and Hezbollah militia fought further fighting around the city of Khiam in the south. According to reports from the state agency NNA, the Israeli army attacked the key site from the air and with artillery. Ground troops continued to try to enter the city. These were the worst attacks in Khiam in two months. The Lebanese army, which is not actually involved in the war, complained of more casualties: one soldier was killed and 18 others were injured, it said after an attack on one of its bases near the coastal city of Tyre. The state agency NNA reported that the Israeli army fired artillery at them and that a fire broke out at an arms depot.
The Israeli army expressed its regret after the attack. It happened in an area where there is fighting with the terrorist organization Hezbollah. The army is targeting its attacks only against the Shiite militia and not deliberately against the Lebanese forces, the army said in a statement. The incident is under investigation. The Lebanese armed forces are increasingly caught between the fronts in their own country. The military has reported several deaths since Israel escalated attacks in the neighboring country in September.
Source: Krone
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