BEIRUT: Hezbollah mentioned it had fired rockets at two bases close to the Israeli metropolis of Tel Aviv and one west of Haifa on Tuesday morning (Oct 22) simply hours earlier than US Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrived in Israel to make another push for an elusive ceasefire.
Diplomatic efforts have thus far didn’t carry an finish to the year-long warfare within the Palestinian territory of Gaza and its spillover battle between the Lebanese armed group Hezbollah and Israel, which has intensified in latest weeks after a yr of exchanges of fireplace principally throughout Lebanon’s southern border.
Shortly after Blinken landed, Lebanon’s well being ministry mentioned the demise toll from an Israeli strike on Monday evening close to Hariri Hospital, Beirut’s most important authorities medical facility, had climbed to 13.
After a heavy evening of Israeli strikes on Lebanon’s south and the southern suburbs of its capital Beirut, Hezbollah mentioned it had fired rockets on the Glilot base utilized by Unit 8200 of Israeli navy intelligence, and the Nirit space in Tel Aviv’s suburbs.
The group mentioned it additionally fired rockets at a naval base exterior the port metropolis of Haifa additional north.
There have been no fast studies of casualties. Israeli authorities mentioned air sirens had been activated in areas southeast of Tel Aviv on account of one projectile recognized crossing from Lebanon and falling in an open space. Different sirens sounded in Tel Aviv.
Blinken’s journey to the area is his eleventh because the assault on Israel by the Palestinian militant group Hamas on Oct 7, 2023, that triggered the Gaza warfare.
Blinken will meet Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Defence Minister Yoav Gallant and different officers through the day as a part of a week-long Center East go to that additionally consists of Jordan and Qatar.
In Israel, Blinken will focus on Israel’s anticipated retaliation for a ballistic missile attack launched by Iran on Oct 1, a senior State Division official mentioned, talking on situation of anonymity.
