Hezbollah says it has launched rockets at an intelligence base near Tel Aviv

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The Lebanese militant group Hezbollah said on Saturday it had launched rockets at an Israeli intelligence base near Tel Aviv in the early hours of Saturday.

At 2:30 a.m. (00:30 GMT), militants fired “a volley of rockets at the Glilot base of the Military Intelligence Unit 8200 on the outskirts of Tel Aviv,” the Iran-backed group said in a statement.

Hezbollah and Israel exchanged cross-border fire for almost a year after Hamas’s October 7, 2023 attack on Israel sparked the war in Gaza, before Israel intensified the conflict on September 23.

The militant group claims to have repeatedly fired rockets at Israeli bases or urban areas in Israeli territory, and has repeatedly claimed to have targeted Glilot.

It also said it had fired salvos of rockets into areas of northern Israel on Saturday morning, particularly the city of Safed, another repeated target.

The Israeli military said on Saturday that sirens were activated following the arrival of “suspicious aerial targets” from Lebanon and that the targets remained under surveillance during an ongoing incident.

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