BEIRUT/JERUSALEM Following a devastating Israeli bombing that killed at least 29 people in Beirut the previous day, the Hezbollah organization in Lebanon launched significant rocket barrages toward Israel on Sunday. The Israeli military said that homes had been demolished or set on fire close to Tel Aviv.
Israel also targeted Hezbollah-held southern neighborhoods of Beirut, where heightened shelling during the past two weeks has accompanied encouraging developments in cease-fire negotiations headed by the United States.
Hezbollah, which has repeatedly threatened to attack Tel Aviv in retaliation for attacks on Beirut, claimed to have fired precision missiles at two military installations in Tel Aviv and the surrounding area.
Several persons suffered minor injuries, according to police, and there were several impact sites in the Petah Tikvah neighborhood on Tel Aviv’s eastern side.
According to the Israeli military, a neighborhood was hit directly, leaving houses in rubble and on fire. TV footage showed rocket fire damaging an apartment.
According to the IDF, Hezbollah launched 240 rockets toward Israel, many of which were intercepted, causing sirens to ring throughout the majority of the nation. Shrapnel had wounded at least four people.
In the northern Israeli city of Nahariya, a rocket exploded as it struck a building’s roof, according to footage that Reuters was able to get.
According to security officials in Lebanon, the military warned on social media that it intended to target Hezbollah installations in southern Beirut before to strikes that destroyed two apartment buildings. The IDF later claimed to have struck command centers that were purposefully positioned amid residential structures.
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