For the first time since the end of May, warning sirens are sounding again in Tel Aviv. The rocket alert applies to practically the entire center of Israel.
Rocket alerts were sounded early this morning in the Israeli coastal metropolis of Tel Aviv and other cities in the country. According to a military spokesman, it was the first time ever that the Lebanese Hezbollah militia had fired a rocket at Tel Aviv. It was intercepted.
The pro-Iranian Shiite organization said the rocket attack was aimed at the headquarters of the Israeli foreign intelligence service Mossad in a suburb of Tel Aviv. The Mossad was responsible for the murder of several leading members of the militia and for the apparently coordinated mass explosions of countless radio devices in Lebanon.
Israel’s army did not confirm the target of the attack. “I cannot say anything about their intentions,” said military spokesman Nadav Shoshani. The result, however, was that a rocket flew towards civilian areas in Tel Aviv. The Mossad headquarters is not in this area.
The sirens blared throughout virtually all of central Israel, the Israeli army reported on the online platform X.
The last time a rocket alert was triggered in Tel Aviv was at the end of May, because of an attack by the Islamist Hamas. After that, the alarm sirens only sounded in other parts of the country.
Israel’s army is involved in military conflicts with the Hezbollah militia in Lebanon and its allied terrorist organization Hamas in the Gaza Strip, both of which are supported by Iran.
