Mourners attend the funeral of two Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) militants killed in southern Lebanon, reportedly in fighting against Israeli forces, on November 1, 2024. , Photo courtesy: AFP
Lebanon’s Hezbollah militant group said on Saturday (November 2, 2024) that it had launched rockets at an Israeli intelligence base near Tel Aviv early Saturday.
At 2:30 a.m. (00:30 GMT) militants “fired rockets at the Gillot base of an 8,200-strong military intelligence unit in the suburbs of Tel Aviv,” the Iran-backed group said in a statement.
Cross-border firing between Hezbollah and Israel Almost a year after Hamas’ October 7, 2023 attack on Israel The Gaza War began on 23 September, before Israel escalated the conflict.
The militant group often claims to fire rockets at Israeli positions or urban areas in Israeli territory and has several times claimed to have targeted Gillot.
It also said it had fired another double-target rocket salvo on Saturday (November 2, 2024) morning at areas in Israel’s north, particularly the city of Safed.
The Israeli military said Saturday that sirens had been activated after “suspicious air targets” came from Lebanon and that the targets remained under constant surveillance.
published – November 02, 2024 10:36 PM IST