Politics Israeli air force attacks targets in Lebanon again

During the night, Israel's military once again attacked Islamist Hezbollah facilities in Lebanon from the air. Among other things, weapons depots, rocket launchers and fighters of the Iranian-backed militia were bombed, as the army announced via the online platform X. Subsequent explosions indicated large quantities of weapons stored there, it said.

In the Israeli coastal metropolis of Tel Aviv, a rocket alarm was triggered in the early morning for the first time since the end of May. A missile fired from Lebanon was intercepted over the greater Tel Aviv area, the military later announced. The surface-to-surface missile was fired from a launching pad in the south of the neighboring country and the pad was subsequently destroyed by the Israeli air force. It was the first time since the massacre in Israel on October 7, 2023 and the subsequent start of the Gaza war that a rocket from Lebanon had reached the greater Tel Aviv area.

Hezbollah subsequently stated that the rocket attack was aimed at the headquarters of the Israeli foreign intelligence service Mossad in a suburb of Tel Aviv. Mossad was responsible for the assassination of several leading members of the militia and for the apparently coordinated mass explosions of countless radio devices in Lebanon.