After it struck Tel Aviv late on Monday, Hezbollah launched its heaviest rocket attack on Haifa since the start of the war, as it kept up other strikes against Israeli gatherings and sites across the border between Lebanon and occupied Palestine.
Hezbollah’s Military Media announced in a statement that the Islamic Resistance bombarded the city of Haifa and Krayot with a large rocket barrage at 12:30 PM on Tuesday, October 8, 2024.
Israeli media said some 105 rockets were launched from Lebanon at Haifa and Krayot in half an hour, describing the attack as the heaviest one since the start of the war.
The Megan David Adom said it has evacuated 12 casualties following the rocket attack.
The strike on Haifa and Krayot was Hezbollah’s eighth operation on Tuesday.
Shortly after midnight, the Military Media announced the first operation for Tuesday, saying the Islamic Resistance fighters “targeted a gathering of enemy forces in Israeli settlement of Shlomi with a rocket barrage at 12:05 AM on Tuesday, October 8, 2024,” the first statement read.
The first strike was simultaneous with the second, which targeted a gathering of enemy forces in Hanita settlement with a salvo of rockets, according to the second statement.
Later at 12:45 AM, the Islamic Resistance fighters targeted a gathering of enemy forces in the vicinity of Al-Marj site with a barrage of rockets, according to the third statement.
The Islamic Resistance fighters targeted an Israeli artillery position in Dishon with a rocket barrage at 5:00 AM, the fourth statement read.
The fourth operation coincided with the fifth, in which the Islamic Resistance fighters launched a salvo of rockets targeting an Israeli artillery position in Dalton, according to the fifth statement.
Also at 5:00 AM, the Islamic Resistance fighters targeted an Israeli gathering in the vicinity of the Yir’on settlement with a rocket barrage, according to the sixth statement.
Later at 9:30 AM, the Islamic Resistance fighters targeted a gathering of Israeli enemy forces at the Al-Baghdadi site with a swarm of suicide drones, the seventh statement read.
Earlier on Monday, Hezbollah’s Military Media announced a missile strike on Tel Aviv, the third one to hit the Zionist entity’s center since the start of the Israeli aggression on Lebanon on September 23.
In a statement, the group said: “With the call ‘Labbaik Ya Nasrallah’ (At Your Service O (Sayyed) Nasrallah), the Islamic Resistance launched a salvo of missiles targeting the Gililot base of Israeli military intelligence Unit 8200 located in the suburbs of Tel Aviv.
It noted that the strike was “in support of our steadfast Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip, in solidarity with their valiant and honorable resistance, in defense of Lebanon and its people, and as part of a series of Khaybar operations aimed at retaliating the Israeli massacres against Lebanese civilians.”
The Israeli occupation army confirmed that rockets were fired towards Tel Aviv from Lebanon, claiming to intercept some of them.
Hebrew media commented on the strike as saying that Tel Aviv was hit on Monday by missiles launched from three fronts: Gaza, Yemen and Lebanon.
The attack on Tel Aviv was the thirteenth Hezbollah operation for Monday.
Source: Al-Manar English Website
