BEIRUT (Reuters): Hezbollah said in a statement on Tuesday that it had fired the “Fadi 4” at military positions in the suburbs of Israel commercial hub Tel Aviv.
It is the fourth iteration of a series which have progressively bigger payloads and longer ranges that Hezbollah has begun to use in recent weeks.
The group also said it fired missiles at the headquarters of Israel’s Mossad intelligence agency, blamed for assassinations of Hezbollah commanders and leaders, and at a military intelligence unit on the outskirts of Tel Aviv.
Israel’s ambulance service said two people had been wounded by shrapnel from the barrage of missiles fired into Tel Aviv and the wider central Israel area. Traffic was also affected by part of a missile that fell onto a highway near the town of Kfar Qasim east of Tel Aviv.
Lebanon is facing one of the most dangerous stages in its history, caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati said on Tuesday during a meeting with UN organizations and ambassadors of donor countries, in which they made a joint appeal for more than $400 million in aid to cope with surging hostilities.
Despite its biggest successes against Hezbollah in decades, Israel has indicated it is primed for a full-fledged invasion of Lebanon with the stated aim of enabling thousands of its citizens who fled Hezbollah rockets to safely return to their communities near the northern border.
Israel’s strikes have displaced one million Lebanese from their homes and killed more than 1,100 people, Lebanese authorities have said.
