At least 11 people were wounded today as hundreds of rockets were fired by Hezbollah against the major Israeli city of Tel Aviv. A large number of buildings were reported hit in the attack, and there is extensive damage, though exactly how extensive isn’t totally clear at this point.
The attacks come after Israel attacked central Beirut with a bunker buster bomb on Saturday morning. At least 29 people were killed in that attack, and Hezbollah’s leader said the strike on central Beirut justified attacks on Tel Aviv.
Teams started conducting assessments on the damage in Tel Aviv this evening, though they said full assessments won’t be possible for at least 24 hours. This is one of the largest operations Hezbollah has launched against Israel, and the preliminary assessments is that the damage is in the tens of millions of dollars.
Israel’s military initially said 170 rockets were fired at Tel Aviv, and many were intercepted. Since that time, the reports suggest as many as 340 rockets may have been fired, though the injuries are said mostly to be minor, with only one person described as in “moderate to serious condition.”
A lot of the images so far show damage to houses and apartments in eastern Tel Aviv, and some cars burnt out in the process. Again, the rockets came close to evening, so it is not possible to say the full extent of the damage yet.
These escalating tit for tat attacks comes amid international efforts to broker a ceasefire. Most recently, Lebanon and Hezbollah agreed to a US proposal, and it is awaiting an Israeli response. There were reports, however, that Israel objected to any ceasefire in which France was in any way involved, and that may prove a stumbling block.
It is time for Israel to change its policy on attacking Lebanon. Israel should start to flatten cities after cities without warning in Lebanon, until Lebanon stops firing at Israel's cities.
Flattening cities with civilians in them is a war crime.
It's also cowardly and ghoulish.
WTF?! You're calling for war crimes in an anti-war site?! Blocked.
This is what they are ALREADY doing. They did it to Gaza, hope you remember. No human or pet can live there, and now even tents are bombed. Very good at killing civilians, the more vulnerable the better.
That is what bullies do — cower and whimper in the face of superior power but treat weak with sadistic cruelty.
Israel is finished Tim…! If you were planning to settle in Gaza… You should think again…!
Ah, the truly bestial war criminal emerges.
What a nasty piece of shit you are, but then you're a Zionist so that almost goes without saying.
Tell us one more time about how Isreal is not committing genocide, you fqing monster.
That works both ways. That's why Tel Aviv got bombed. You think there won't be any retaliation in kind henceforth?
Well done. Now fire 1,000.
Seems like Zionists are on automatic pilot: bomb, grab, kill, etc. no matter what the consequences.
This is only the tip of the iceberg of the massive damage that Hizbollah is causing to Israel. Israel began a Genocide with full US (and British and German) support and has found only the road to self-destruction, which is surely good because the Zionist Regime is incompatible with human rights. Palestine will be free from the river to the sea.
Israel is already defeated and on its way to collapse…!
Seems so. There’s been talks of a truce and analysts are taking them seriously this time: the impact of the bombing of Tel Aviv together with the wide support, even among Western countries, for the ICC arrest warrant against Netanyahu and Gallant appears to have tipped the scales. We’ll see anyhow: Israel will have to make serious concesions this time.
Waiting for the terrorism claim.
So what did the assassination of Nasrallah achieve…?!
Absolutely Nothing…!