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For the first time, a ballistic missile launched by Hezbollah reached the Tel Aviv area: it was intercepted and destroyed, without causing any damage. Meanwhile, intense bombing continues in southern Lebanon and for the first time an Israeli raid has hit a mountain village about thirty kilometers north of Beirut, leaving three dead. The pro-Iranian Shiite group confirmed the killing of the commander of the missile unit, Ibrahim Kobeissi, but from Tehran Ayatollah Ali Khamenei assured that the assassination of senior leaders “will not bring the group to its knees”. “It is the first time ever that a Hezbollah missile has reached the Tel Aviv area,” said an army spokesman, while another spokesman, Nadav Shoshani, called the launch of the land-based missile “an escalation”. Earth. The Lebanese movement “is definitely trying to aggravate the situation, this is only one part, they are trying to terrorize more and more people.”

The armed forces said they had hit the launcher that fired the missile in the Nafakhiyeh area in southern Lebanon. Hezbollah explained that Qader-1 was launched targeting the Mossad headquarters on the outskirts of Tel Aviv, in retaliation for the murders of several of its commanders and the explosions of pagers and walkie talkies in Lebanon last week. dead and around 3 thousand injured. Precisely because of the attack on the devices, an internal source reported, 1,500 fighters are out of action due to their injuries. Many were blinded or lost their hands.

“Extensive” raids are underway not only in southern Lebanon, but also in the Beqaa Valley, the Jewish State reported, underlining that they have hit more than 100 targets throughout the Cedar Country since the early hours of the morning. From Beirut, the Ministry of Health announced that so far ten people have died in the attacks and over 20 people have been injured. For its part, the Shiite movement has launched around forty rockets towards northern Israel since this morning, and one of these damaged a house in Safed. The pro-Iranian group also attempted to hit a “strategic structure” of the Israeli electricity company but thanks to the defenses installed in advance, the attempt failed and no damage occurred to the site.