Hezbollah: Mossad Tel Aviv HQ targeted with ballistic missile
Lebanon’s resistance movement Hezbollah says it has targeted the headquarters of the Israeli spy agency Mossad with an advanced ballistic missile in response to the recent pager explosions and the assassination of top commanders of the popular group.
Hezbollah announced in a statement on Wednesday that it has struck a Mossad headquarters in the suburbs of Tel Aviv with a Qader 1 ballistic missile.
“In support of our defiant Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip and as part of backing its daring and honorable Resistance, and in defense of Lebanon and its people, the Islamic Resistance fighters targeted on Wednesday, September 25, 2024 at 6:30 a.m. the Mossad headquarters in the suburbs of Tel Aviv with a ‘Qader 1’ ballistic missile,” the statement said.
“This headquarters is responsible for assassinating leaders and blowing up pagers as well as the wireless devices,” it added.
The projectile triggered sirens in Tel Aviv as well as multiple other towns in the central occupied territories, with Israeli media reports declining to provide details on the extent of damage and the number of casualties.
The Wednesday strike marks the first time Hezbollah has used a long-range missile in the near-daily conflict with the occupying entity.
After the targeting, air traffic at Israel’s Ben Gurion Airport stopped and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was forced to postpone his trip to New York, which was scheduled for September 25.
The Lebanese resistance movement had a day earlier fired 50 rockets at the Dado base, the headquarters of the Northern Command of the Israeli military, located northwest the occupied city of Safad, just 12 kilometers from Lebanon’s border.
In the early hours of Wednesday, Hezbollah announced the Israeli assassination of one of its senior commanders and another member of the Lebanese resistance movement in a raid on the capital Beirut.
