2024-08-06 16:07:30
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Leave a comment on the photo, Israeli police and officials work at the site of a shell fall in Nahariya, northern Israel, after Lebanese Hezbollah said it launched a swarm of attack drones at military targets on August 6, 2024.
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Lebanon’s Hezbollah said it launched a swarm of attack drones at military targets in northern Israel on Tuesday.
Hezbollah issued a statement saying that it used drones to attack the Golani Brigade headquarters and the Egoz 621 unit headquarters located in the “Sharaga” military camp in northern Acre, northern Israel.
“The assault march accurately hit its target, causing confirmed casualties,” the statement said.
The Israeli ambulance service announced that a drone explosion in the Western Galilee region injured two people, one of them seriously.
Israeli newspaper Israel Hayom reported that bomb attacks from Lebanon targeted the area, adding that a military installation between Acre and Nahariya was bombed.
Alerts were sounded in the northern Israeli city of Nahariya and surrounding areas of Acre over fears of drone infiltration and missile launches from Lebanese territory.
A source within the group told Reuters that “this is not revenge for the killing of Hezbollah leader Fouad Shukr in Beirut last week” and that Hezbollah has pledged revenge, raising concerns about the situation. fears of escalation and the possibility of turning into an all-out war.
A Hezbollah statement said the operation was carried out within the framework of support for the Palestinians in Gaza and “in response to yesterday’s (Monday) attacks and assassinations in the town of Aba”.
Breaking the sound barrier in Beirut
The Lebanese state news agency said Israeli warplanes flew low and broke the sound barrier over Beirut on Tuesday ahead of a speech by Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah.
The Lebanese agency said “Israeli warplanes broke the sound barrier over the capital and in several areas” and security sources said the Israeli planes were flying “at very low altitudes”.
Witnesses said they could see the plane with their naked eyes and felt vibrations in the windows. The sound of planes was the loudest Beirut had heard in years.
On Tuesday, ahead of Nasrallah’s speech, Israeli warplanes broke the sound barrier over Beirut three times in less than 30 minutes, sending people in the city fleeing for shelter.
Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah was due to speak at around 5pm (1400 GMT) to mark a week since military commander Fouad Shukr was killed in an Israeli attack on Beirut’s southern suburbs anniversary.
Hezbollah vowed to respond to the killing, which came just hours before Hamas politburo chief Ismail Haniyeh was assassinated in Tehran, an operation blamed on Israel which has neither confirmed There is no denying that the operation was carried out.
At least six Israelis injured
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Leave a comment on the photo, On August 6, 2024, Hezbollah said it launched a batch of attack drones at military targets in Nahariya, northern Israel, causing damage to an Israeli bus station.
In its first statement on the attack, the Israeli army said that several unidentified objects crossed over from Lebanon, adding that one of the objects was detected impacting south of Nahariya, injuring many civilians.
Sirens sounded in response to incoming missiles due to concerns about interceptor missile fragments falling off. The military said the alarm that went off at 12:56 pm local time was a false alarm.
The Times of Israel quoted officials as saying that at least six people were taken to hospital after Hezbollah attacks on marches in northern Israel, four of them injured by shrapnel and two suffering from severe anxiety attacks.
Professor Massad Barhom, director of the Nahariya Galilee Medical Center, told Channel 12 News that the hospital was treating six people, one of whom was seriously injured.
Three other people suffered minor injuries and two were being treated for severe anxiety, he added.
Magen David Adom medics Roy Vishna and Noam Levy explained that the seriously injured man was hit in the head by shrapnel and was found unconscious.
A statement from Magen David said: “We saw the man sitting unconscious in the car with severe shrapnel wounds to his head.”
The statement added: “There is also an injured woman near the parking lot. She is fully conscious and has shrapnel wounds to her limbs.”
They said they revived the man and took him to hospital in a “very serious” condition, and moved the woman who suffered minor to moderate injuries.
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Leave a comment on the photo, Israeli police inspect the site where the shell fell
An eyewitness to a drone crash on a road in the northern town of Mazira said he “miraculously survived” the explosion because he was lying on the road, which protected him from flying shrapnel that caused Several other people were injured, one of whom is in critical condition.
The Times of Israel quoted the man, who was interviewed by Israel’s Kan radio station, as saying he heard sirens and lay down, then heard a drone flying in the sky and then a huge explosion, “shrapnel flying Over my head.
The witness from Kiryat Ata said: “I survived because I lay down, which is a miracle I have never seen before.”
He described the scene as “scary”, adding that the Iron Dome system missed the drone and fragments of the interceptor missile also fell nearby.
Another witness, Maou Amsalem, told the Times of Israel that he was driving north when he suddenly heard sirens, so he stopped on the side of the road and saw the drone about 7 meters above him. meters, hitting a car traveling south.
Amsalam added: “The glass shattered. I heard endless screams. I saw injured people. I have never seen anything like this before! I’m still shaking!”
Khader Shaker from Netivi Israel’s Operations and Maintenance Department arrived shortly after the explosion and reported that the driver panicked after the explosion and caused the accident.
Previously, the Israeli army confirmed that it used fighter jets to attack so-called “military buildings” used by Hezbollah in the town of Miftun in southern Lebanon.
The Israeli army released aerial footage of the attack on the town of Mifton, about 30 kilometers (19 miles) north of Lebanon’s southern border, marking the first such attack.
The Lebanese Health Ministry said five people were killed in the Israeli attack, which reportedly hit a house occupied by Hezbollah members.
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