Hezbollah confirms Sunday attack targeting Israeli base

BeirutThe head of the Lebanese Islamist movement Hezbollah, Hassan Nasrallah, announced that the attack launched by his group on Sunday was aimed primarily at an Israeli military intelligence base near Tel Aviv.

The “main target of the operation” was “the Glilot base, the main base of Israeli military intelligence” “110 km from the border” with Lebanon, Nasrallah said in a televised speech.

An Israeli army spokesman told AFP that the military intelligence base, which according to Israeli media also houses the headquarters of the Mossad – Israel’s foreign intelligence services – “was not hit.”

The Hezbollah chief denied Israel’s “misleading claims” about the destruction of rocket launchers.

“The statements according to which the resistance was going to launch 8 thousand or 6 thousand rockets and drones and that [Israel] he tore it apart […] “These are misleading claims,” ​​Nasrallah said, adding that only “a few dozen rocket launchers” had been destroyed.

The leader of the Lebanese movement said his powerful Islamist group had launched its attack in two phases.

First, it fired 340 Katyusha rockets at eleven military targets in northern Israel and the Israeli-occupied Syrian Golan Heights.

He then launched drones from southern Lebanon and, for the first time, from the Bekaa Valley in eastern Lebanon on the border with Syria, which hit military targets at depth, he said.

In addition to Glilot, Hezbollah targeted the Ein Shemer air force base, 70 km from the border, he said.

Israel said early Sunday it had thwarted a large-scale Hezbollah attack with several airstrikes in Lebanon.

The Lebanese movement announced that it had launched hundreds of drones and rockets towards Israel to avenge the death of one of its top military leaders, Fuad Shukr, in an Israeli bombing near Beirut on July 30.

Hassan Nasrallah hinted that this attack was over.

“If the outcome is satisfactory and meets the desired objectives, we will consider that the response operation” to the murder of Shukr “is over,” he said.

US helped track Hezbollah attacks against Israel (US official)

The United States helped track a barrage of rockets and drones launched by the Lebanese Shiite group Hezbollah at Israel, but was not involved in Israeli strikes in Lebanon or shooting down any projectiles, a U.S. defense official said.

“The United States was not involved in Israel’s preemptive strikes last night. We provided some ISR (intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance) support in terms of tracking incoming Lebanese Hezbollah strikes, but we did not conduct any kinetic operations because they were not necessary,” the official said on condition of anonymity.