Attack on central Israel injures 11 as Iran’s leader promises a punishing response

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******* on central ******* injures 11 as Iran’s leader promises a punishing response

JERUSALEM (AP) — An ******* on a central ******** town early Saturday injured 11 people as Iran’s supreme leader vowed a punishing response to *******’s ******* last week.

The predawn strike on Tira, which followed air raid sirens across central *******, was one of several barrages fired from Lebanon early in the day. Many of the projectiles were intercepted by ******** air defenses, while others landed in unpopulated areas.

The Magen David Adom emergency service said 11 people were hurt by shrapnel and glass shards in a direct strike on a building in Tira, a predominantly ******** ***** town. Three were in moderate condition, while the others suffered milder injuries.

Footage showed significant damage to the roof and top floor of the three-story building and cars below.

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said on Saturday that it had used missiles and explosive drones to target military and intelligence facilities in northern and central *******. It claimed responsibility for ******* missiles toward the ******** military’s Unit 8200 base in Glilot, on the edge of Tel Aviv, and for ******* rockets toward military facilities in Zvulun. Hezbollah also said it had targeted central *******’s Palmachim Air Base with explosive drones, saying they “scored precise hits on targets.”

*******’s military did not confirm whether any of the three Hezbollah targets had been hit and said it had no comment on the group’s claims.

Hezbollah said the Saturday dawn missile ******* directed at Glilot was in retaliation for the “massacres” that are being committed by *******. Tira, is about 20 kilometers (12.5 miles) from Glilot.

Tamar Abdel Hai, a resident of Tira, said that the ******* was frightening. “I call upon all the leaders in the ***** world and the leaders in ******* and to everyone who can help to end this war. It’s enough,” he said.

Hezbollah also said that its fighters fired salvos of rockets into northern ******** towns including Dalton, Yesud HaMa’ala and Bar Yohai.

******** media showed images of damage reportedly caused by a drone that hit a factory north of Nahariya. The army said several drones crossed from Lebanon into *******, one was intercepted but “fallen targets were identified in the area.”

Meanwhile, an ******** airstrike on a southern suburb of Beirut on Saturday afternoon wounded 11 people, the Lebanese Health Ministry said. ******** planes resumed strikes on on the

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overnight Friday, following four day lull in the capital.

In a separate incident, a Lebanese ship captain was taken away by a group of armed men who landed on a coast north of Beirut, Lebanese authorities said Saturday. Officials said the incident occurred Friday at dawn and authorities are investigating whether ******* was involved.

There has been no immediate ******** comment on the matter. In the past, ******* has carried out

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to kidnap or ***** Hezbollah and ************ officials.

Iran threatens more attacks

The early Saturday attacks may be only a precursor to a more severe strike against *******.

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s supreme leader, on Saturday threatened ******* and the U.S. with a punishing response over attacks on Iran and its allies following *******’s

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that targeted Iran’s military bases and other locations.

“The enemies, whether the Zionist regime or the ******* States of America, will definitely receive a crushing response to what they are doing to Iran and the Iranian nation and to the resistance front,” Khamenei said in video released by Iranian state media.

A further ******* by Iran, which has already launched two direct attacks against ******* this year, could push the wider Middle East closer to a broader conflict. ******* is already battling the Iran-backed militant group ****** in the Gaza Strip and Hezbollah in Lebanon.

The ****** against Hezbollah has weakened the group but has also taken a

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and other parts of the country.

On Friday, ******* launched dozens of intense

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northeastern farming villages, ******** at least 52 people and wounding scores more, the Lebanese Health Ministry reported.

Since the conflict between ******* and Hezbollah erupted in 2023, more than 2,897 people have been ******* and 13,150 wounded in Lebanon, according to a Health Ministry update early Friday. ******* Nations agencies estimate that *******’s ground invasion and bombardment of Lebanon has

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Residents of *******’s northern communities near Lebanon, roughly 60,000 people, have also been

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******** strikes in Gaza ***** at least 42 people in 24 hours

******* has also stepped up its offensive against

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, raising concerns about humanitarian conditions for civilians still there.

A series of ******** strikes on Nuseirat, a ******** camp in central Gaza, ******* at least 42 people, more than a half of them women and children, in 24 hours, Dr. Marwan Abu Naser, director of Al-Awda Hospital that received the casualties, told The Associated Press. A further 150 were wounded, he said.

The World Health Organization began a scaled-down polio vaccination campaign on Saturday, giving second doses to at-risk children only in Gaza City after providing first doses in multiple parts of northern Gaza, which has seen intense ******** bombardment.

The second round was initially set to start Oct. 23 but was postponed due to lack of access amid intense ******** ********, mass evacuation orders and a lack of assurance about humanitarian pauses.

*******’s war in Gaza has

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since Oct. 7, 2023, when ****** militants ******* roughly 1,200 people in ******* and took some 250 hostages back to Gaza. Health officials inside ******-run Gaza

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between civilians and combatants, but say more than half of the ***** in the enclave are women and children.

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Associated Press journalists Bassem Mroue in Beirut, Natalie Melzer in Tel Aviv, *******, and Shlomo Mor in Tira, *******, contributed to this report.

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