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Times Of Israel
Times Of Israel
6 Nov 2024


NextImg:Hezbollah fires rockets at central Israel, with one hitting Ben Gurion Airport area

Hezbollah fired rockets at central Israel on Wednesday morning and again in the afternoon, demonstrating it maintains the capability to launch long-range attacks into the heart of the country even as the Israeli military’s pursues its ground operation in southern Lebanon.

The Israel Defense Forces said most of the 10 projectiles in the morning barrage were intercepted, but that one of the rockets struck an area near Ben Gurion Airport.

Debris from an intercepted rocket also hit an empty parked car in Ra’anana. No injuries were caused in the attack.

Sirens rang out again shortly after 4 p.m. east of Tel Aviv The IDF said they were caused by a single rocket that was intercepted.

Some flights experienced delays and disruptions as a result of the rocket attacks. The Israel Airports Authority said the airport was “open and working normally for arrivals and departures.”

In a statement, Hezbollah claimed to have targeted the IDF’s Tzrifin base, located south of Ben Gurion Airport, in the morning attack.

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The bases house a number of IDF units, including several training schools and a logistics center.

Projectiles were also lobbed by the terror group at Israel throughout Tuesday, including a drone launched from Lebanon that set off sirens in Metula and Kfar Giladi and was shot down by the IDF, and two rockets fired from Lebanon that were intercepted after they triggered sirens in Haifa and surrounding communities.

During fighting in southern Lebanon on Monday, a soldier with the Nahal Brigade’s 932nd Battalion was seriously wounded, the IDF said. He was taken to a hospital in Israel for treatment.

The IDF also said Tuesday that it carried out airstrikes in Syria, targeting Hezbollah weapon depots.

The weapon depots used by Hezbollah were struck by fighter jets in the al-Qusayr area in western Syria, close to the border with Lebanon.

The IDF said Hezbollah’s armament unit is responsible for storing weapons in Lebanon, and it recently expanded its activities to Syria, storing weapons in al-Qusayr.

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The strike came a day after another rare acknowledgment of a strike in Syria, when the IDF confirmed it targeted what it said was infrastructure and assets of Hezbollah’s intelligence division south of Damascus.

Additionally, the military said Tuesday that troops discovered and destroyed an underground network some 70 meters (around 230 feet) in length in southern Lebanon.

In a statement, the IDF said the tunnel had a number of branches, including a room equipped for a long-term stay, and weaponry.

In a separate raid, a second underground infrastructure was discovered, which also had rooms for living in and a number of weapons.

The military said that the tunnel and weapons were also destroyed.

Meanwhile, Lebanese rescuers pulled 30 bodies out of the rubble after a late-night Israeli strike on an apartment building in the town of Barja, Lebanon’s Civil Defense service said Wednesday.

It remained unclear if there were any survivors or bodies still trapped under the rubble following the Tuesday night airstrike, which came without warning. There was no statement from the military and the strike’s intended target also was unknown.

Rescue workers use excavators to remove the rubble of a destroyed building that was hit Tuesday night in an Israeli airstrike, as they search for victims in Barja, Lebanon, November 6, 2024. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

The military has said that it only targets terror infrastructure in Lebanon and that Hezbollah routinely uses residential buildings to store arms.

Barja, a town just north of the port city of Sidon in central Lebanon, has not been regularly targeted so far in the conflict.

“Something pulled me hard, and then the explosion happened,” said Moussa Zahran, who was at home with his wife and son when the building was hit. He said he couldn’t see but started digging through the rubble until he found his wife and son — alive but injured — and pulled them out. Both are still in the hospital, he said.

Another building resident, Muhyiddin Al- Qalaaji, said he was at work when the strike happened and heard the news from his wife who called him frantically.

“There are many dead and injured,” he said as he carried out what he could salvage of the family’s belongings on Wednesday morning.

Civil defense official Mostafa Danaj said some of the neighbors have reported there are still people missing.

Amid the ongoing operation, the IDF on Wednesday called on civilians near four buildings in southern Lebanon’s Nabatieh to immediately evacuate ahead of airstrikes.

Col. Avichay Adraee, the IDF’s Arabic-language spokesman, published maps alongside the announcement, which call on civilians to distance themselves at least 500 meters from the sites.

“You are located near Hezbollah facilities and assets, against which the IDF will operate in the near future,” Adraee said.

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Israel sent troops into southern Lebanon in late September, days after stepping up its attacks on Hezbollah in a bid to make the north safe for some 60,000 displaced residents.

The residents were evacuated soon after the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas attack, out of fear Hezbollah would carry out a similar assault in the north. A day after the massacre, Hezbollah-led forces began attacking the north on a near-daily basis.

Lebanon said Wednesday it had filed a complaint with the United Nations’ labor agency over deadly detonations of communication devices held by Hezbollah operatives across the country in September, widely ascribed to Israel, and which came ahead of the escalation at the end of that month.

Thousands of pagers and walkie-talkies used by Hezbollah exploded during the attack, killing dozens of people and injuring thousands more across Lebanon, in what has widely been reported as a successful Mossad operation.

Israel has not officially taken responsibility for the attacks.

The attacks on northern Israel since October 2023 have resulted in the deaths of 40 civilians. In addition, 61 IDF soldiers and reservists have died in cross-border skirmishes and in the ground operation launched in southern Lebanon in late September. Two soldiers were killed in a drone attack from Iraq, and there have been several attacks from Syria, as well, without any injuries.

The Lebanese health ministry announced on Monday that the country’s death toll in the Israel-Hezbollah war had crossed 3,000. The figure does not distinguish between civilians and combatants. The IDF estimates that some 3,000 Hezbollah operatives have been killed in the conflict. Around 100 members of other terror groups have also been reported killed in Lebanon.