Hezbollah missile makes 'direct impact' in Tel Aviv
The Lebanese resistance has intensified its long-range drone and missile attacks against sensitive targets deep inside Israel
Missiles launched by Hezbollah achieved at least one “direct hit” in the greater Tel Aviv area late on 18 November after air defenses failed to intercept the barrage launched from Lebanon.
Impacts were reported by the Israeli municipalities of Bnei Brak and Ramat Gan, located just east of Tel Aviv. According to the military, only fragments of the missiles hit the populated areas, injuring at least five.
However, the district police commander for Ramat Gan told Israeli media that the damage in the city “is not fragments of an interceptor but a heavy missile hit.”
The impacts in Israel's economic hub came following a large missile barrage launched from Lebanon. According to reports in Israeli media, the projectile that bypassed air defense systems was the Fateh 110 surface-to-surface ballistic missile.
Following the attack, Hezbollah announced the launch of multiple operations targeting sensitive Israeli targets.
"Within the framework of the Khaybar operations, our fighters launched an air attack with a squadron of qualitative suicide drones on sensitive military points - which will be announced later - in the city of Tel Aviv," late night a statement from the group reads.
The group also said it launched a “complex operation” targeting the Tel Haim base of Israel's Military Intelligence Division in the city of Tel Aviv “with a volley of qualitative missiles and a squadron of attack drones.”
Hezbollah forces reported targeting a gathering of Israeli army forces in the Margaliot settlement with rockets for the second time during the day late on Monday. Attacks have also targeted the targeting Stella Maris military base and the headquarters of the special naval mission unit Shayetet 13 in the besieged port city of Haifa.
The Lebanese resistance's latest attack on Tel Aviv comes after the Israeli army significantly escalated its attacks across Lebanon, hitting the country over 300 timesin the span of 48 hours.
As the US-backed war continues to escalate, US special envoy Amos Hochstein is on his way to Beirut to continue ceasefire talks. On Monday night, western media outlets reported that “Lebanon and Hezbollah have agreed to a US proposal for a ceasefire with Israel with some comments on the content.”
“We presented a set of non-negotiables within the framework of the political movement, foremost of which is the necessity of stopping the war,” Hezbollah MP Ihab Hamadeh told Arabic media earlier in the day. He added that other “non-negotiables” included making sure that the ceasefire “protects Lebanese sovereignty” and “that the occupation should not achieve in politics what it failed to achieve in the field.”
“We cannot make concessions that affect the sovereignty of our country,” Hamadeh said.