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BREAKING: Multiple Explosion Heard in Israel Capital

BySani Magaji Garko

Sep 28, 2024

There are reports of explosions heard in Tel Aviv, according to Israeli news outlet Ynet.

A surface-to-surface missile fired from Lebanon towards central Israel fell in an open area, the Israeli army said.

The army added that no sirens were sounded and that the incident was under review.

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Meanwhile, Israel fighter jets have yesterday attacked Hezbollah targets in Lebanon, including weapons launchers and storage sites, the military said.

The announcement came hours after it announced an attack against an area heavily populated with Lebanese civilians, claiming it was Hezbollah’s “command centre” in southern Beirut.

At least two people were killed and more than 70 wounded in Israel’s latest attack with at least six residential buildings completely destroyed.

In the same vein, Hezbollah says direct hit on Israeli city of Safad with rockets
Hezbollah says it attacked the city of Safad, in northern Israel, with salvoes of rockets.

“In defence of Lebanon and its people and in response to Israel’s barbaric attacks on towns, villages, and civilians. A direct hit from a Hezbollah rocket was identified in [Safed],” a statement said.

Israel’s emergency medical service Magen David Adom said it’s en route to the scene. Israeli police said “no injuries have been reported, but significant property damage has occurred”, adding “police officers and bomb disposal units are currently working to isolate the impact sites”.

In separate statements, Hezbollah said its fighters also struck the northern Israeli city of Karmiel and the Sa’ar kibbutz with dozens of rockets.

The attacks come shortly after Israel struck Beirut’s southern suburbs in Lebanon, levelling six buildings in the Haret Hreik district. At least two people were killed and dozens wounded.

In another development, director of the Levant Institute for Strategic Affairs, Sami Nader says the Beirut attack could lead to “a very dangerous turn” in the Middle East.

“This will have the potential to become not only a full-blown war between Lebanon and Israel but drag the whole region into a full-scale war,” he told Al Jazeera. “I don’t think Iran will stay out as the most important asset [Hezbollah] it has in the Mediterranean, and in the region, is at stake.”

He said that “the Houthis in Yemen, Iran-backed militias in Iraq and Syria would lend a hand to Iran.”

Also, tens of thousands of people protested in Iran and Yemen to condemn Israeli attacks on Lebanon and Gaza.

Demonstrators in Tehran and other Iranian cities responded to a call by authorities to rally in support of Hezbollah in Lebanon “and to condemn the barbaric crimes of the Zionist regime in Palestine”, the official IRNA news agency said.

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Protesters carried portraits of Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah, as well as Palestinian and Hezbollah flags. “Israel is destroyed. Lebanon is victorious,” they chanted, deploring “a bloodbath in Lebanon”.

In the Yemeni capital Sanaa, tens of thousands of chanting protesters waved rifles and placards.

“We say to our brothers in Lebanon that you will be victorious, God willing,” said Houthi supporter Mortada al-Mutawkil. “This war is not the first nor the last with the Israeli enemy. But God willing, it will be more painful for Israel than the 2006 war.”

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