Lebanon’s Hezbollah launched a ballistic missile at Israel’s Mossad headquarters in the Tel Aviv area early Wednesday as Israeli airstrikes continued to pound towns and villages in the south and east of Lebanon.
In a statement, the Iran-backed militant group said the targeted headquarters was responsible for last week’s attacks that saw thousands of pagers and hundreds of hand-held radios explode across Lebanon, killing 37 people and leaving more than 3,000 others injured.
The Israeli military said it intercepted the rocket attack on Tel Aviv, saying it was the first time a Hezbollah rocket reached the area since the cross-border hostilities began last October.
Since Monday, Israel has widened its airstrikes in Lebanon, targeting more than 2,000 Hezbollah sites and killing at least 569 people, including 50 children. Nearly 500,000 people have been internally displaced as they fled the heavy airstrikes in the south and east, according to the Lebanese Foreign Ministry.
People stand by an impact crater next to a destroyed warehouse at the site of an Israeli airstrike in Jiyeh along the highway linking Beirut to the southern city of Sidon on Sept. 25, 2024. (MAHMOUD ZAYYAT/AFP via Getty Images)
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