A HEZBOLLAH rocket landed in Israel’s main airport today as the group launched waves of projectiles across the Lebanese border.
Ben Gurion airport was struck during a blistering assault this morning as the IDF battled to intercept the initial salvo of projectiles. the military reported.
Flights were delayed and disrupted as a result of the attack, as Hezbollah claimed it was targeting the IDF’s Tzrifin base, south of the airport.
Debris from an intercepted rocket also hit an empty car parked in Ra’anana, some 13 miles from the airport in Tel Aviv.
Sirens rang out again east of the city this afternoon after a single rocket was flagged and intercepted, according to the IDF.
The military claimed 120 projectiles were launched from Lebanon today altogether.
The IDF reported ten were fired in the morning, claiming to have intercepted ‘most’.
The Israel Airports Authority announced later that the airport was ‘open and working normally for arrivals and departures’ again, following the initial attack.
Images from Ra’anana showed the aftermath of a separate attack, in which debris ostensibly from a Hezbollah rocket landed in a parked car, destroying it.
Footage showed the roof of the car caved in and the windshield cracked, with glass around the vehicle as bystanders took photos.
Hezbollah later said it had launched attack drones at a base south of Tel Aviv, adding it was targeting this military position for the first time.
Fighters launched a ‘squadron of attack drones at the Bilu base (belonging to the reserve paratroopers brigade…) south of Tel Aviv, for the first time,’ Hezbollah said in a statement.
The group also said it had targeted a naval base near the Israeli city of Haifa with drones and missiles, the fourth attack on the base in as many weeks.
Hezbollah fighters ‘targeted the Stella Maris naval base northwest of Haifa with a salvo of high-quality missiles and a squadron of attack drones,’ the group said in a statement.
The barrage comes after months of exchanges between Israel and Hezbollah, an Iranian proxy group based in Lebanon.
Hezbollah has launched rockets into Israel since the onset of Israel’s campaign in Gaza in solidarity with its ally in Hamas.
