‘Primary Goal Was Glilot Base…’: Hezbollah Chief On Assaults On Israeli Base Close to Tel Aviv

Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah stated his group’s large-scale assault on Israel on Sunday focused a army intelligence base close to Tel Aviv and denied Israel destroyed 1000’s of the group’s rockets launchers.

Israel launched air strikes into Lebanon on Sunday, saying it destroyed “1000’s” of Hezbollah rocket launchers and thwarted a significant assault, whereas Hezbollah stated it delivered a drone and rocket barrage of its personal.

The “major goal for the operation” inside Israel was “the Glilot base — the primary Israeli army intelligence base”, round 100 kilometres (60 miles) from the Israel-Lebanon border, Nasrallah stated in a televised speech.

The Israeli military stated Hezbollah did not strike the set up.

“I can verify that there have been no hits on the Glilot base,” a spokesperson for the Israeli army instructed AFP.

In line with Israeli media experiences, the bottom hosts headquarters of the Mossad spy company, which has by no means revealed its tackle.

“Discuss how the resistance (Hezbollah) was going to launch 8,000 or 6,000 rockets and drones and that (Israel) thwarted this… are false claims”, Nasrallah stated, including that solely “dozens of rocket launchers” have been destroyed.

Nasrallah stated his group carried out a two-phased assault, firstly launching “340 Katyusha rockets” at 11 Israeli army positions in northern Israel and the annexed Golan Heights.

Then, drones launched from south Lebanon but additionally from east Lebanon’s Bekaa valley close to the Syrian border for the primary time focused positions deeper in Israel, Nasrallah added.

He stated the secondary goal was an Israeli base in Ein Shemer, alleging that a lot of drones reached their goal “however the enemy is silent”.

Ein Shemer is a army airport used for Israeli drones, about 70 kilometres from the border.

Hezbollah has traded near-daily cross-border fireplace with Israeli forces all through the Gaza conflict, saying its assaults are in help of Palestinian ally Hamas.

However fears of a wider regional conflagration soared after assaults in late July blamed on Israel killed Iran-aligned militant leaders, together with a prime Hezbollah commander, Fuad Shukr, prompting vows of revenge.

The Lebanese motion stated earlier Sunday its assault was an “preliminary response” to Shukr’s killing.

Nasrallah appeared to recommend the retaliation was over, saying that “if the result’s passable and the sought aims completed, we predict the response operation” to Shukr’s killing “has been completed”.

(This story has not been edited by News18 employees and is printed from a syndicated information company feed – AFP)