Hezbollah launched dozens of rockets into Israel on Wednesday, including a longer-range projectile that set off air raid sirens in Tel Aviv and across central Israel. It was the group’s farthest strike yet. Israel said it intercepted the projectile, and there were no reports of casualties or damage.
Hezbollah said it had fired a ballistic missile at the headquarters of Israel’s Mossad intelligence agency, which it said was responsible for the targeted killing of its senior leaders. Israel later said it struck the site the missile was launched from in southern Lebanon.
Israel killed a top Hezbollah commander Tuesday as part of a two-day bombing campaign that left more than 560 people dead and prompted thousands in southern Lebanon to seek refuge from the widening conflict. Hezbollah has launched hundreds of projectiles towards Israel, causing some damage to buildings and homes and lightly injuring a number of people.
Israel and Hezbollah have been trading fire since the Israel-Hamas war began. Israel’s military says it will do “whatever is necessary” to push Hezbollah away from Lebanon’s border with Israel.
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Lebanon says 51 killed and 223 injured in Israeli strikes on Wednesday
Lebanon’s health minister says 51 people were killed and 223 injured in Israeli strikes Wednesday.
The death toll comes on top of 564 who were killed and more than 1,800 injured in the previous two days, including around 150 women and children.
This week has been the deadliest in Lebanon since the bruising monthlong war between Israel and Hezbollah in 2006. In the current conflict, Israel has said it is targeting Hezbollah fighters and weapons storage, while Lebanese officials say it has targeted civilian sites.
Israel says it struck 280 Hezbollah targets across Lebanon
The Israeli military says its air force has struck some 280 Hezbollah targets across Lebanon so far on Wednesday.
It said the targets included launchers used to fire rockets on the northern Israeli cities of Safed and Nahariya.
Also among the targets were Hezbollah militants, buildings used to store weapons, and ready-to-use launchers, as well as some 60 targets belonging to Hezbollah’s intelligence unit, the army said.
The military says its strikes in Lebanon are continuing.
UN: Over 90,000 displaced by Israeli strikes on Lebanon
The U.N. says over 90,000 people have been displaced by five days of Israeli strikes on Lebanon.
The U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said Wednesday that a total of 200,000 people have been displaced in Lebanon since Hezbollah began firing rockets into northern Israel nearly a year ago, drawing Israeli retaliation.