The Israeli army on Wednesday morning again struck sites of the Iranian-backed Shiite Hezbollah militia in Lebanon from the air.
Among the bombed targets were weapons storage sites, rocket launch pads and Hezbollah warplanes, the military reported on the online platform X. Later explosions indicated large quantities of stored weapons, it added.
Early Wednesday morning, sirens sounded in Tel Aviv for the first time since May after air defenses intercepted a missile fired from Lebanon, the Israeli military said.
The surface-to-surface missile was fired from a launch pad in the south of the neighboring country and the launch pad was subsequently destroyed by the Israeli air force, the report said.
There were no reports of damage or casualties, the military said.
It is the first time Hezbollah has attacked Tel Aviv in central Israel since the war in the Gaza Strip began on October 7 last year.
Hezbollah later said the rocket attack targeted the headquarters of Israel’s foreign intelligence agency Mossad in a Tel Aviv suburb.
The Mossad was responsible for the killing of several militia leaders and for the apparently coordinated mass explosions of communications equipment used by Hezbollah in Lebanon last week, the organization said.
Since October 7, military clashes between the Israeli army and Hezbollah have been taking place almost daily in the border area between the two countries.
As the war in Gaza approaches its first anniversary, Israeli attacks have led to a dramatic escalation of the conflict with Hezbollah in the north.
Israel said Tuesday it would step up its bombing campaign in Lebanon, after two days of airstrikes on Hezbollah have pushed the death toll above 550 and forced tens of thousands from their homes.
