Hezbollah terrorists launched rockets at the Tel Aviv metropolitan area on Wednesday morning for the second consecutive day, sending millions of Israelis to bomb shelters.
The Iranian terror proxy in Lebanon also targeted northern border towns and the Galilee, including the city of Nazareth.
The military confirmed that two rockets headed toward central Israel were intercepted by air defenses. There were no immediate reports of injuries in the attack, though rocket shrapnel damaged a car in the coastal city of Herzliya.
Hezbollah took responsibility for the rocket attack, claiming it targeted the “Glilot base of the Military Intelligence Unit 8200 in the suburbs of Tel Aviv with a qualitative missile salvo.”
🚨Sirens sounded in central and northern Israel🚨
— Israel Defense Forces (@IDF) October 23, 2024
Early Tuesday morning, Hezbollah terrorists fired about five rockets at central Israel, setting off sirens across the region including in Tel Aviv. Simultaneously, the Shi’ite terrorist organization fired some 15 rockets at the Upper Galilee and the Golan Heights, most of which were intercepted.
A later rocket barrage targeting Kibbutz Neot Mordechai in the Galilee panhandle killed one IDF soldier while wounding at least two others. The army said some 30 projectiles were fired from Lebanon in the attack that killed Master Sgt. (res.) Saar Eliad Navarsky, 27, from Tel Aviv.
Sixty people—28 Israeli civilians and 30 IDF soldiers, as well as a Thai national and an Indian citizen—have been killed by Hezbollah fire since the terrorist group opened a front against Israel the day after Hamas’s Oct. 7, 2023, massacre of some 1,200 people, according to official data.
In addition, at least 570 people have been wounded in Hezbollah’s ongoing attacks on the Jewish state, including about 340 civilians.
Jerusalem has escalated attacks on Hezbollah since adding the safe return of some 60,000 residents evacuated from towns and villages along Israel’s northern border to its official war goals on Sept. 17.
The IDF announced late Tuesday night that Hashem Safieddine, a potential successor to slain Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, was killed in an airstrike carried out by the Israeli Air Force three weeks ago.
IAF jets “conducted a precise, intelligence-based strike on Hezbollah’s main intelligence headquarters, deliberately located underground beneath the civilian population in the Dahiyeh,” the IDF confirmed.
The strike killed 25 Hezbollah terrorists, including Safieddine and Ali Hussein Hazima, commander of Hezbollah’s intelligence headquarters.
Safieddine was a first cousin of Nasrallah, who was killed in an Israeli airstrike last month. The IDF said Safieddine frequently served as acting secretary-general of Hezbollah when Nasrallah was outside Lebanon.
