Hezbollah fires 320 rockets and shells at Israel – DW – 10/12/2024

Israel Defense Forces (GULL) on Saturday, October 12, 320 rockets and shells were launched across the country by the Hezbollah terrorist movement, the military press service said.

A big side swipe”Hezbollah” which happened on one of the main Jewish holidays, Yom Kippur. According to the IDF, most of the missiles and drones were intercepted by the Israeli air defense, the rest fell in fields open

Two Israelis received minor shrapnel wounds near the northern city of Acre, Israeli media reported. At the resort of Herzliya near Tel Aviv, a drone overwhelmed the air defense system and damaged buildings. “The IDF will continue to protect Israel and its people from the threats posed by the terrorist group Hezbollah,” the IDF said.

IDF military operations against Hezbollah

Israel began to hold “preemptive military operations” against the movement of Hezbollah in the second half of September 2024. As a result of air strikes, storage facilities for missiles, drones and launchers for them in Lebanon were hit.

Hezbollah regularly fires at Israel from the Lebanese border and also supports Hamas militants, with whom Israel is at war in the Gaza Strip. Within a month, the IDF managed to kill Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, who led the movement for more than 30 years, then his successor, and then the next follower.

Escalation of conflict in the Middle East

The situation in the Middle East deteriorated significantly on October 7, 2023. The radical Islamic movement Hamas, recognized as a terrorist group by the European Union and the United States, launched a major attack on Israel. Terrorists launched a massive missile attack on Israel, invaded its territory and carried out the largest massacre of civilians in the history of the modern state of Israel, killing around 1,200 people . The terrorists also took about 250 hostages and took them to the Gaza Strip. Some of the guards were exchanged or released, while others died.

Israel responded by declaring war on Hamas. As a result of ground operations and bombing of the Gaza Strip, according to the Hamas-controlled Ministry of Health, more than 41.5 thousand Palestinians have been killed. The Palestinian terrorists were supported by the radical Shiite Lebanese movement Hezbollah, which is recognized as a terrorist group in Germany, the US, Israel and several Arab states.