Hezbollah rockets wounded at least 10 in Haifa, Israel's third-largest city, as Israel hammered Beirut with overnight airstrikes on the eve of Oct. 7, one year after the Hamas attack that triggered an escalating crisis in the Middle East.
Hezbollah fired off a missile salvo toward a military base south of the city on Israel's western coast, followed by a second one that it said targeted an area north of the city.
The Israeli military said it intercepted five rockets fired from Lebanon and was reviewing the incident. It also downed some of the 15 projectiles it said were fired toward Tiberias, around 40 miles east of Haifa near the Golan Heights.
Meanwhile, Israel fired missiles at the southern suburbs of Beirut, the Lebanese capital where Hezbollah is headquartered. For more than two weeks, Israel has launched a wave of aerial attacks at the city, killing more than 1,500 people.
The rockets across the Israel-Lebanon border came hours before the 1-year anniversary of Oct. 7, when Hamas overran Gaza's border, killing 1,200 Israelis and taking 251 people hostage, marking the largest escalation in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in decades. It was the biggest attack on Jews since the Holocaust and the deadliest day in Israel's history.
Israel launched an aerial and ground siege of Gaza to root out Hamas, a war that has killed nearly 42,000 people, according to the Hamas-run Gaza Health Ministry. Airstrikes have pulverized the densely populated enclave, destroying infrastructure and pushing those remaining to the brink of starvation.
Amid the worsening situation in Beirut, the U.S. facilitated a flight carrying around 90 people from the city to Istanbul on Sunday, according to a spokesperson from the State Department.
The ongoing siege has provoked heightened attacks on Israel from Hamas' allies in the region, including Hezbollah. The Lebanese military group, which functions as a "state within a state" in the country and maintains its own fighting force, has lobbed rockets over the border into northern Israel on a near-daily basis since the conflict began.
No comments:
Post a Comment