The Israeli army claims that a missile launch from Lebanon led to sirens sounding in Jerusalem.
On Saturday evening, I heard sirens in Jerusalem. On the Telegram app, the Israeli army claims that the sirens were the result of a launch from Lebanon, which should have crossed the border into Israel.
Earlier Saturday he said Houthi militia In Yemen, they fired a missile at Tel Aviv Airport, just as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu landed after returning to his country from New York. This attack was also the first of its kind in which sirens sounded in Israel, and then in the capital, Tel Aviv.
On Saturday, Israel also launched several attacks against Lebanon.
Lebanon and Hezbollah
Lebanon is a country with many separate religious groups, with Shia Muslims being the most populous, followed by Sunni Muslims and various Christian groups.
Hezbollah is a Shiite Islamist group, and among the country's Shiite Muslims, support for Hezbollah is strongest. The group has the support of Iran, where Shiite Muslims also form a clear majority and are in power.
Israel directs its attacks against areas in southern Lebanon and neighborhoods in Beirut where many Shiite Muslims live.
A number of countries consider Hezbollah a terrorist organization, including the United States. The European Union has only placed the armed wing on its terrorist list, according to SNL.
Israeli Army: A senior intelligence member was killed
An Israeli army spokesman said on Saturday evening that a senior member of Hezbollah intelligence, Hassan Khali Yassin, was killed in the Dahiya area south of Beirut on Saturday.
This is the same area that was attacked on Friday, where Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah was killed.
According to the Israeli army, fighter jets were behind the attack on Yassin.
Attack near the airport
Earlier on Saturday, a security source told Reuters news agency that Israel attacked an industrial zone just 500 meters from the airport in the Lebanese capital, Beirut.
The source says that the attack hit an area full of car workshops and that the Israeli attack was the one that hit the one closest to the airport so far.
Middle East Airlines President Mohammed Al-Hout said that the airport is operating normally.
Lebanon: About one million displaced people
More than a thousand people have been killed in Lebanon since the conflict between Israel and Hezbollah escalated sharply less than two weeks ago, according to the Lebanese Ministry of Health.
Lebanon's head of crisis management, Nasser Yassin, told Reuters that about a million Lebanese were displaced due to the Israeli attacks. This includes hundreds of thousands since the attacks that occurred in southern Beirut on Friday.
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