Hezbollah targets military base near Ben Gurion airport south of Tel Aviv
Sirens blared across northern and central Israel on Wednesday, including in the populous metropolitan area of Tel Aviv, as Hezbollah launched 10 rockets towards Israel.
Hezbollah said it fired missiles at an Israeli military base near the country’s main international airport on Wednesday, the first such attack in more than a month of war.
In a statement, the Iran-backed group said the salvo of missiles targeted the Tzrifin military base near Ben Gurion International Airport, south of the Israeli commercial hub of Tel Aviv.
Israel’s Magen David Adom rescue services said there were no reports of injuries.
A large portion of a rocket slammed into a parked car in the central Israeli city of Raanana. Rockets also struck an open area near Israel’s main airport.
Israel Airports Authority said operations at Ben Gurion airport near Tel Aviv were not affected.
"Ben Gurion airport is open and operating as normal for takeoffs and landings. There were no falls on the runway," the authority's spokeswoman, Liza Dvir, told AFP.
The Israeli military later said Hezbollah fired about 120 projectiles across the border from Lebanon on Wednesday.
"Approximately 120 projectiles that were fired by the Hezbollah terrorist organization have crossed from Lebanon into Israel today," the military said, after sirens sounded in northern and central Israel.
Hezbollah continues to send dozens of rockets and drones towards Israel. The projectiles have killed 72 people in Israel so far, including 30 soldiers, according to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office.
On Tuesday, Netanyahu dismissed Defense Minister Yoav Gallant in a surprise announcement that sparked protests across the country. Gallant's replacement is Foreign Minister Israel Katz, a longtime Netanyahu loyalist and veteran Cabinet minister.
Since the conflict between Israel and Hezbollah erupted in 2023, at least 3,000 people have been killed and some 13,500 have been wounded in Lebanon, about a quarter of them women and children, the Health Ministry reported.
Hezbollah continues to send dozens of rockets and drones towards Israel. The projectiles have killed 72 people in Israel so far, including 30 soldiers, according to Netanyahu’s office.
Another night of protests was planned across Israel on Wednesday evening, over Gallant's firing.
Netanyahu and Gallant have repeatedly been at odds over the war in Gaza but the prime minister had avoided letting go of his rival before the U.S. presidential election on Tuesday.
By midday Wednesday in the Middle East, Donald Trump was elected the 47th president of the United States in a remarkable political comeback.
Source: Agence France Presse
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