'Not the end of the story': Netanyahu on Israel's attacks on Hezbollah in Lebanon
Benjamin Netanyahu
Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu threatened Iran-backed and Lebanon-based militant group Hezbollah that Sunday's air raids in southern Lebanon were "not the end of the story". The two sides exchanged their heaviest fire since the war in Gaza began in October last year, pushing the region on edge.
The Israeli prime minister, however, did not provide the details of a future attack on Hezbollah targets. But he suggested Israel's moves in the immediate future would be aimed at "changing the situation in the north".
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) used 100 jet fighters that hit more than 40 target sites inside Lebanon over a period of seven hours. Hezbollah also launched hundreds of rockets and drones at Israel.
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Netanyahu said that the raids "destroyed thousands of short-range rockets, all of which were designed to attack our citizens and our forces in the Galilee" in northern Israel.
He also said the IDF had "intercepted all of the drones that Hezbollah launched at a strategic target in the centre of the country".
Netanyahu did not name the target but the Hezbollah leader, Hassan Nasrallah, described it as "a military intelligence base 110km inside Israeli territory" outside Tel Aviv, an apparent reference to the Glilot military base, home to the Mossad spy agency and military intelligence agencies such as the Unit 8200 electronic surveillance section.
Two Hezbollah fighters and a militant from an allied group were killed in the strikes on Lebanon. An Israeli navy officer was killed and two other service members injured on a patrol boat off the coast of northern Israel that was hit by shrapnel from an Iron Dome interceptor missile.
Meanwhile, on Sunday evening (August 25), the armed wing of Hamas said that it had fired an "M90" rocket at Tel Aviv in response to what it said was the “Israeli massacres against civilians”.
Sirens sounded in Rishon LeTsiyon, about 15 miles south of Tel Aviv, but the rocket landed "in an open area".
A Hamas official also said on Sunday evening that it rejected new Israeli conditions put forward in the Gaza ceasefire talk
"We will not accept discussions about retractions from what we agreed to on July 2 or new conditions," Hamas official Osama Hamdan told the group’s Al-Aqsa TV on Sunday.
(With inputs from agencies)
Disclaimer: WION takes the utmost care to accurately and responsibly report ongoing developments in the Israel-Palestine conflict after the Hamas attacks. However, we cannot independently verify the authenticity of all statements, photos, and videos.