Israel conducted a preemptive assault overnight between Saturday and Sunday, in which it said 100 planes destroyed thousands of rocket launcher barrels inside Lebanese territory shortly before they were to be used, and then intercepted most of the 230 rockets and 20 drones Hezbollah did fire.
In his speech, Nasrallah maintained that the attack had caused “great disruptions” inside Israel. He indicated that the operation was conducted in two phases: Firstly, he claimed, the terror group fired over 320 Katyusha rockets on 11 different military sites to keep Israel’s Iron Dome aerial defense system busy, and then it launched dozens of drones directed at central Israel.
He indicated that the two main objectives targeted by the drones were the Glilot base just north of Tel Aviv, which houses the IDF’s 8200 elite intelligence unit and is adjacent to Mossad headquarters, and the Ein Shemer airforce base near the coastal city of Hadera, about 40 kilometers (25 miles) north of Tel Aviv. “According to our intelligence, the drones reached their target,” he said, claiming Israel was failing to admit this. “We achieved and surpassed our objectives.”
He boasted that Hezbollah’s drones arrived very close to Tel Aviv, since Glilot is a suburb of the coastal city, but insisted that the operation only targeted military objectives, not civilian ones. READ MORE
