Hezbollah rockets hit Haifa, Israel’s third-largest city, Israeli police said early on Monday. An Israeli media house reported 10 people were injured in the country’s north.
Hezbollah said it targeted a military base south of Haifa with a salvo of “Fadi 1” missiles. Media reports said two rockets hit Haifa on Israel’s Mediterranean Coast and five others hit Tiberias 65 km (40 miles) away.
Video Surveillance
Police said some buildings and properties were damaged, and there were several reports of minor injuries with some people taken to a nearby hospital.
Video taken by a surveillance camera showed the moment a Hezbollah rocket hit Haifa.
Reuters independently verified the location with the design and outline of the buildings, business signs, trees and road layout that match the file and satellite imagery of the area. It was also able to independently verify the date with corroborating reports and the timestamp of the footage.
Hezbollah HQ Attacked
Israel’s military said fighter jets hit targets belonging to Hezbollah’s Intelligence Headquarters in Beirut. This includes intelligence-gathering means, command centres, and additional infrastructure sites.
Over the past few hours, the airstrikes struck Hezbollah weapons storage facilities in the area of Beirut, the military said. The military also noted that secondary explosions were identified following the strikes, indicating the presence of weaponry.
Airstrikes also struck Hezbollah targets in southern Lebanon and the Beqaa area, including weapons storage facilities, infrastructure sites, a command centre, and a launcher, the military said.
It blamed Hezbollah for deliberately embedding its command centres and weaponry beneath residential buildings in the heart of the city of Beirut and endangering the civilian population.
Israeli Strikes
An Israeli strike on a building in the mountain town of Kayfoun in central Lebanon killed six people and wounded 13, Lebanon’s health ministry said. A strike in the nearby town Qmatiye killed six more, including three children, and wounded 11, it said.
In the Gaza Strip, at least 26 people were killed and 93 others wounded when Israeli airstrikes hit a mosque and a school sheltering displaced people on Sunday, according to the Hamas-run Gaza government media office. The Israeli military said it had conducted “precise strikes on Hamas terrorists”.
(with inputs from Reuters)
