Beirut (National Times) Hezbollah fired rockets at Haifa, Israel’s third largest city as Israel’s military said around 135 projectiles had entered Israeli territory on Monday as of 5 p.m. (1400 GMT).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Hezbollah, an ally of Hamas, said it targeted a military base south of Haifa with “Fadi 1” missiles and later areas north of Haifa in a second salvo of missiles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It also said it launched another strike on Tiberias, 65 km (40 miles) away on the shores of the Sea of Galilee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
An Israeli military statement said five rockets were launched towards Haifa, also a major Mediterranean port, from Lebanon and interceptors were fired at them. “Fallen projectiles were identified in the area. The incident is under review.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ten people were reported injured in the Haifa area and two others further south in central Israel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Israel also intercepted two drones launched early on Monday from the east after sirens blared in the central areas of Rishon Lezion and Palmachim, the military said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
South Lebanon<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n The military said the air force was carrying out extensive bombings of Hezbollah targets in south Lebanon, and that two Israeli soldiers were killed in border-area combat, taking the military death toll inside Lebanon so far to 11.<\/p>\n\n\n\n It said it also carried out a targeted strike in Beirut’s southern suburbs, where a thick plume of smoke could be seen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Lebanon’s health ministry said 10 firefighters were killed in an Israeli airstrike on a municipal building in the border-area town of Bint Jbeil, and that other aerial attacks on Sunday killed 22 people in a swathe of southern and eastern towns. Many Israelis have regained confidence in their long vaunted military and intelligence apparatus after a series of deadly blows to the command structure of Hezbollah, Iran’s most formidable Middle East proxy force, in Lebanon in recent weeks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu defended his country’s airstrikes at a special cabinet meeting in Jerusalem marking the Gaza war anniversary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “We are changing the security reality in our region, for our children’s sake, for our future, to ensure that what happened on Oct. 7 does not happen again,” Netanyahu said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Israel hits more than 120 targets<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Over 120 targets in southern Lebanon struck within an hour, Israeli military says<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Israeli military said it had conducted an “extensive aerial operation” and struck more than 120 targets in southern Lebanon within an hour.<\/p>\n\n\n\n It said those targets belonged to different units of Hezbollah.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “This operation follows a series of strikes aimed at degrading Hezbollah’s command, control, and firing capabilities, as well as assisting ground forces in achieving their operational goals,” it said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Beirut (National Times) Hezbollah fired rockets at Haifa, Israel’s third largest city as Israel’s military said around 135 projectiles had entered Israeli territory on Monday as of 5 p.m. (1400 GMT). Hezbollah, an ally of Hamas, said it targeted a military base south of Haifa with “Fadi 1” missiles and later areas north of Haifa […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":90904,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international","entry"],"yoast_head":"\n
Hamas, which tTel Avivriggered the Gaza war with a surprise attack on Israel a year ago today, targeted Israel’s commercial capital Tel Aviv with a missile salvo on the anniversary, the group said, setting off sirens in central areas of the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n