Rockets of "Hezbollah" hit Israel's third-largest city of Haifa, police said earlier today, as quoted by Reuters.
Israeli media reported 10 wounded in the northern part of the country on the one-year anniversary of the start of the war in Gaza.
The Iranian-backed Lebanese Shiite movement "Hezbollah" - an ally of the Palestinian radical group "Hamas", which is fighting Israel in Gaza - said it fired a volley of "Fadi 1" rockets. to a military base south of Haifa. According to the media, two rockets hit the Mediterranean city of Haifa, and five rockets hit the city of Tiberias, about 65 km away. Police said several buildings were damaged and there were reports of injured people, some of whom were taken to a nearby hospital.
The Israeli army announced that it had carried out a strike with fighter jets against targets linked to the intelligence headquarters of the "Hezbollah" in Beirut, including intelligence gathering facilities, command centers and other infrastructure facilities. In the past few hours, airstrikes have hit Hezbollah weapons depots. near Beirut, the army said, adding that there were secondary explosions after the attack, indicating the presence of weapons inside. Damage was also caused to Hezbollah sites. in southern Lebanon and the Bekaa Valley region, including weapons depots, infrastructure facilities, a command center and a launch pad, the army said.
According to the military "Hezbollah" has deliberately placed its command centers and weapons under residential buildings in downtown Beirut, endangering the civilian population. Today, Israel marks the first anniversary of the Hamas attack that started the war and threatens to spark a wider conflict in the Middle East. On October 7 last year, fighters of "Hamas" fired rockets at Israel, killing about 1,200 people and taking about 250 hostages in Gaza, according to official Israeli figures.
Israel responded by launching an offensive in Gaza that has killed nearly 42,000 people so far, according to Palestinian health officials. Security forces are on high alert today, the army and police said. They are awaiting a possible Palestinian attack planned for the anniversary.
For Israel, the surprise attack by the Iranian-allied Palestinian group is one of the biggest security setbacks for a country that prides itself on its strong and sophisticated military.
The attack by "Hamas" against Israeli communities in Gaza and Israel's relentless retaliatory campaign destabilized the Middle East, and the scale of the killing and destruction horrified people around the world. Israel dealt serious blows to "Hamas" and "Hezbollah" with a series of assassinations of its leaders and commanders - part of Iran's "Axis of Resistance", which also includes the Yemeni Houthis and armed groups in Iraq to fight against Israel and US interests in the Middle East.
The commander of the elite "Quds" unit has been missing since the end of last week. of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps General Esmail Kaani, who left for Lebanon after the assassination of the leader of "Hezbollah" Hassan Nasrallah last month in an Israeli airstrike, two senior Iranian security officials told Reuters.
The focus of the war has increasingly shifted north to Lebanon, where Israeli forces have been exchanging fire with Hezbollah since the Iran-backed group fired rockets in support of Hamas on October 8 last year. This escalated into bombings against sites of "Hezbollah" in the Beirut area and a ground offensive in the border villages aimed at destroying the fighters of "Hezbollah" there and to allow tens of thousands of Israelis evacuated from their homes in the northern part of the country to return.
Israel's onslaught, which has killed more than 1,000 people in the past two weeks, has sparked a mass exodus from southern Lebanon, where more than 1 million people have been displaced. The escalation has raised fears that the US and Iran will be drawn into a wider war in the oil-rich Middle East. Last week, Iran launched a missile attack on Israel in response to its operations in Lebanon and Gaza, where the "Hezbollah" and "Hamas" are allies of Tehran in the so-called "Axis of Resistance".