Hezbollah: Mossad HQ near Tel Aviv targeted with Qader 1 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.

Hezbollah announces martyrdom of senior commander, member in Israeli attack on Beirut

Hezbollah announces the martyrdom of one of its senior commanders and another member of the Lebanese resistance movement during an earlier Israeli raid on Beirut.

The group identified the victims as Ibrahim Mohammed Qobaisi, aka Haj Abu Musa, and Hussein Hani Ezz el-Din, aka Hajj Fares. The Israeli aggression also claimed the lives of six people and wounded 15 others.

Hezbollah and Israel have been involved in fierce fire exchanges since early October last year, shortly after the regime launched a genocidal war against the Gaza Strip following a surprise operation by the Palestinian resistance groups.

As part of the latest escalation, the regime carried out extensive airstrikes against southern and eastern Lebanon on Monday, killing at least 569 people, including 50 children and 94 women, and wounding 5,000 others.

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Global condemnations pour in after the Israeli regime’s recent offensive, which has resulted in the deaths of nearly 500 people in Lebanon.

The attacks came less than a week after the regime killed 38 people, including three children and seven women as well as Ibrahim Aqil, another one of Hezbollah’s senior commanders, in an attack on a residential building in a southern Beirut suburb.

A couple of days earlier, it had also detonated thousands of booby-trapped pagers and walkie-talkie radios across the country, killing at least 39 people and wounding 3,000 others.

The Lebanese resistance movement has vowed to keep up its retaliatory attacks as long as the Israeli regime continues its Gaza war, which has so far killed more than 41,000 Palestinians, mostly women and children.

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