Israel: Hezbollah launched dozens of missiles to Haifa – A woman was slightly injured, damaged in buildings

Sirens sounded a while ago in Haifa, as early in the afternoon of Tuesday (8.10.2024) or launched dozens of missiles to the city. According to Israel’s army, about 85 rockets were launched from Hezbollah, Lebanon, positions to Haifa. Buildings were destroyed, while a woman – according to the Times of Israel – was lightly injured by fragments. At the same time, buildings were damaged. Army reports attempts were made to intercept. So far it has not been clarified how many rockets have been shot down. Footage from the site of a rocket impact in the Haifa area in the early Hezbollah barrage. — Emanuel (Mannie) Fabian (@manniefabian) Israel’s land attacks on Lebanon The Israeli army has announced today that it has launched land operations in southwestern Lebanon, expanding its invasion of a new zone just a year since the firefights began with the armed wing of Lebanon’s Shia movement Hezbollah and amid calls from the UN for a diplomatic solution. Regional tensions triggered a year ago by the deadly and unprecedented attack of militants of the Palestinian Islamist Hamas movement on 7 October in southern Israel have led to a series of Israeli operations from land and air over Lebanon and direct Iran attacks on Israeli military facilities. Iran has warned Israel today against any attack on the Islamic Republic, a week after Tehran launched a missile barrage into it, bringing the Middle East to the extreme. Any attack on Iran’s infrastructure will be met with retaliation, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Aragci said today, warning Israel against any attacks against his country. Aragci will visit Saudi Arabia and other countries in the Middle East from today to discuss regional issues and make efforts to stop Israel’s “crimes” in Gaza and Lebanon, the Iranian ISNA news agency broadcast. Gulf states tried to reassure Iran of their neutrality in the Iran-Israel conflict, sources told Reuters last week. In Lebanon, the Israeli army today increased pressure on Iran-backed Hezbollah, announcing that it conducts “limited, local, targeted operations” in the south-west part of the country, while last week had announced the conduct of such operations in its south-eastern border. The Israeli army struck the southern suburbs of Beirut during the night and announced that it killed a high-ranking Hezbollah official, the budget officer and custody of the organization. If confirmed, Suhail Hussein Husseini’s death will be the most recent in a series of assassinations by Israel leaders and commanders of Hezbollah and Hamas allied, which has been fighting Israel for a year now in the Gaza Strip. By making the biggest blow to Hezbollah for decades, Israel killed Hassan Nasrala’s leader in an air raid made in the southern suburbs of Beirut in late last month. The UN Special Coordinator for Lebanon and the head of the United Nations peacekeeping mission in the country today stated that their repeated calls for restraint “have not been heard” this year since the fires between Hezbollah and Israel broke out. “Today, a year later, almost daily firefights have escalated into an endless military campaign, whose humanitarian impact is nothing but devastating,” they stress in their joint announcement. Steady expansion of Israeli enterprises The attacks increased fears that the US, Israel’s closest ally, and the Islamic Republic of Iran would crawl into a full-scale conflict in the Middle East oil-producing region. The tension between the infernal enemies, Iran and Israel, is great after years of shadow war and murders that have turned into direct confrontations, which have brought the whole region to the extreme. Israel is considering options to respond to Tehran’s attack on him with ballistic missiles last week, which was in response to Israeli military action in Lebanon and the murders of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrala and Hamas political leader Ismail Haniya in a blow to Tehran, for which Tehran blames Israel. American news site Axios broadcast citing Israeli officials, according to which Iran’s oil facilities could be affected, which would constitute a serious escalation and would lead to global oil prices rising. On Friday, U.S. President Joe Biden said that, if he were in Israel’s position, he would think of alternatives to hitting Iranian oil deposits, adding that he believes Israel has not yet come up with the way he will respond to Iran. In Lebanon Israeli air raids have displaced 1.2 million people and Israel’s intensive bombing campaign has worried many Lebanese people that their country will experience the widespread disaster Israel caused Gaza. Israeli forces also issued a warning in Arabic to vacationers and those using vessels to avoid a lane on the Lebanese coast, saying that operations against Hezbollah from the sea would begin very soon. About 2,000 Lebanese have been killed since Hezbollah began putting against Israel, a year ago, in solidarity with Hamas. Most of them have been killed in recent weeks. The Israeli army has described its land business in Lebanon as local and limited, but this has been steadily growing on a scale since last week. The Israeli army states that its goal is to clear the border areas where Hezbollah fighters are hiding and that it does not plan to go deep inside Lebanon.