Greater Tel Aviv targeted by missile from Lebanon for the first time since October 8

Israel – The Israeli army announced on Wednesday morning that the greater Tel Aviv area was subjected to missile fire from Lebanon for the first time since the outbreak of confrontations with Lebanese factions on October 8, 2023.

This comes on the third day of the “most violent, extensive and intense” Israeli aggression on Lebanon since the beginning of the confrontations with the Lebanese factions nearly a year ago.

Army Radio said, “One rocket was fired from Lebanon at the Gush Dan (Greater Tel Aviv) and Sharon areas in central Israel, and that it was intercepted.”

She added that “for the first time since the beginning of the war, Gush Dan has been exposed to gunfire from Lebanon,” noting that the interception of the shell was preceded by the sounding of sirens.

Meanwhile, Israeli army spokesman Avichay Adraee said, via the “X” platform, that air defenses intercepted a surface-to-surface missile launched from Lebanon, which caused sirens to be activated in the greater Tel Aviv and Sharon areas.

For its part, the Israeli ambulance service (known as the Red Star of David) reported, via the “X” platform, that it had not received any notifications of injuries after the sirens were activated in the Tel Aviv and Sharon areas this morning.

The newspaper “Israel Hayom” quoted the army as saying that “there is no change” in the directives of the Home Front Command after the rocket incident, and that the educational process in Tel Aviv will proceed as usual.

Targeting the greater Aviv area means that the Lebanese factions have expanded the range of their attacks on Israel to more than 100 km.

In recent days, the range of the Lebanese factions’ missiles in their attacks against Israeli targets reached the cities of Safed, Acre, and Haifa, which are between 20 and 60 km from the Lebanese border.

Since Monday, the Israeli army has been launching the “most violent and extensive” attack on Lebanon since the beginning of the confrontations with the Lebanese factions about a year ago, resulting in 558 deaths, including 50 children and 94 women, and 1,835 wounded, according to the latest data from the Lebanese Ministry of Health.

Since October 8, Lebanese and Palestinian factions in Lebanon have been exchanging daily shelling with the Israeli army across the “Blue Line” separating them, resulting in hundreds of deaths and injuries, most of them on the Lebanese side.

These factions demand an end to the war waged by Israel with American support on the Gaza Strip since October 7, which has left more than 137,000 Palestinians dead and wounded, most of them children and women, and more than 10,000 missing, amid massive destruction and deadly famine.

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