Lebanon Fires 135 Projectiles Into Israel Today, Says Israeli Army
This picture taken from the West Bank city of Hebron shows projectiles above the Israeli city of Ashdod on October 1, 2024. (Photo by HAZEM BADER / AFP)
Israel’s military said that Lebanese armed group Hezbollah had fired some 135 projectiles into Israel on Monday, as the country marked the first anniversary of the October 7 Hamas attack.
TOPSHOT – A handout picture provided by the office of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on October 6, 2024 shows him (R)decorating the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ Aerospace Force Commander Brigadier General Amir Ali Hajizadeh (L) with the ‘Fath’ badge in Tehran for plannig the Iranian attack on Israel. (Photo by KHAMENEI.IR / AFP)
“As of 17:00 (14:00 GMT Monday), approximately 135 projectiles fired by the Hezbollah terrorist organisation crossed from Lebanon into Israeli territory,” the military said in a statement, as air raid sirens sounded frequently across northern Israel.
Israel army soldiers carry the casket of their fallen comrade Tal Dror, one of two Israeli troops killed in an attack carried out by a drone launched “from the east” according to the army, during the funeral at Mount Herzl military cemetery in Jerusalem on October 6, 2024. (Photo by JOHN WESSELS / AFP)
This is as Israel began its commemorations Monday of the one-year anniversary of Hamas’s deadly October 7 attack, with an outpouring of emotion at vigils at massacre sites and rallies calling for the return of hostages.
Palestinian youths inspect a fallen projectile after Iran launched a barrage of missiles at Israel in response to the killings of Lebanese Hezbollah leader Nasrallah and other Iran-backed militants, in Ramallah in the occupied West Bank on October 1, 2024. (Photo by Zain JAAFAR / AFP)
Family members react during the funeral of Israeli soldier Tal Dror, one of two Israeli troops killed in an attack carried out by a drone launched “from the east” according to the army, at Mount Herzl military cemetery in Jerusalem on October 6, 2024. (Photo by JOHN WESSELS / AFP)
Palestinians inspect the damage on the site of an overnight Israeli airstrike on the Tulkarem refugee camp in the north of the occupied West Bank on October 4, 2024. (Photo by JAAFAR ASHTIYEH / AFP)
(FILES) Supporters of Lebanon’s Iran-backed Shiite group Hezbollah, wave the group’s, Lebanese, and Iranian flags as they rally to attend a speech by Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah (billboard portrait), broadcast on a giant screen, in the southern city of Nabatiyeh, on May 9, 2022. (Photo by Mahmoud ZAYYAT / AFP)
Mourners march with a symbolic coffin during a memorial service for Hassan Nasrallah, the late leader of the Lebanese Shiite group Hezbollah who was killed in an Israeli air strike in Beirut days earlier, in Baghdad’s eastern suburb of Sadr City on September 29, 2024 after Iraq officially declared a three-day national mourning period for Nasrallah. (Photo by AHMAD AL-RUBAYE / AFP)
TOPSHOT – Smoke billows from a site targeted by Israeli shelling in the southern Lebanese village of Zaita on September 23, 2024. The Israeli military on September 23 told people in Lebanon to move away from Hezbollah targets and vowed to carry out more “extensive and precise” strikes against the Iran-backed group. (Photo by Mahmoud ZAYYAT / AFP)