News - Middle East: Air raid sirens sounded in the Israeli-occupied city of Tel Aviv and its surroundings after the Lebanese resistance movement Hezbollah launched a barrage of missiles against the occupying entity, amid the regime’s intensified deadly aggression against Lebanon.

Lebanon’s al-Mayadeen news channel reported on Sunday that more than five heavy and long-range missiles were fired toward a military target in Tel Aviv.

According to Hebrew-language media, at least 10 Israelis were injured in Petah Tikva, east of Tel Aviv, as well as Haifa and Nahariya after rockets hit these areas.

Israeli media also reported that explosions were heard in central Tel Aviv due to the landing of rockets fired from Lebanon.
 

Hezbollah said in a statement that it carried out an operation against a “military target” in Tel Aviv using “a barrage of advanced missiles and a swarm of strike drones.”

The Israeli army said Hezbollah fired around 160 projectiles from Lebanon on Sunday.

Hezbollah later said that it launched a volley of missiles at the Glilot army intelligence base in the suburbs of Tel Aviv.

Hezbollah destroys six Israeli tanks

In addition, Hezbollah said it destroyed six Israeli Merkava tanks in Lebanon's south on Sunday afternoon, five of them in the strategic coastal area of Al-Bayada.

Hezbollah fighters also took out a sixth Merkava tank in the Deir Mimas area close to the border, the group said in separate statements.

Ashdod base targeted for first time

In a separate statement, Hezbollah said its fighters had carried out a drone attack on the Ashdod naval base in the southern part of the occupied territories.

The resistance group said that it had launched an aerial attack using a swarm of strike drones on the Ashdod naval base for the first time.

Hezbollah carried out at least 36 retaliatory operations targeting Israeli military posts and illegal settlements in Tel Aviv and its surroundings as well as in Haifa on Sunday. 

Israel has been targeting Lebanon since October 2023, when it launched a genocidal war on the Gaza Strip.

Hezbollah has been responding to the aggression with numerous retaliatory operations, targeting the occupied Palestinian territories.

Since late September, Israel has escalated its strikes against Hezbollah, assassinating its leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah and a number of its senior figures.

At least 3,600 people have been killed by Israeli fire, and 15,400 others wounded since the clashes began last year, according to the health ministry.

The Lebanese resistance movement has vowed to keep up its operations against Israel as long as the Israeli regime continues its Gaza war, which has so far killed at least 44,000 Palestinians, mostly women and children.

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