Rocket lands near Tel Aviv after Israel strikes Beirut

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Rocket lands near Tel Aviv after ******* strikes Beirut

Lebanon’s Hezbollah movement are ******* heavy rocket barrages at *******, with ******** media reporting that a building has been hit near Tel Aviv, after a powerful ******** air strike ******* at least 29 people in Beirut a day earlier.

******* also struck Beirut’s Hezbollah-controlled southern suburbs on Sunday, where intensified bombardment over the last two weeks has coincided with signs of progress in US-led ceasefire talks.

Hezbollah, which has previously vowed to respond to attacks on Beirut by targeting Tel Aviv, said it had launched precision missiles at two military sites in Tel Aviv and nearby.

Police said there were multiple impact sites in the area of Petah Tikvah, on the eastern side of Tel Aviv, and that several people had minor injuries. Television footage showed an apartment damaged by rocket ***** in Petah Tikvah, and video from the medical service MDA showed cars burning.

The ******** military (IDF) said Hezbollah had fired 170 rockets at ******* on Sunday, of which many were intercepted. At least four people had been injured by shrapnel.

Video obtained by Reuters showed a projectile exploding as it smashed into the roof of a building in the northern ******** city of Nahariya.

The military warned on social media that it planned to target Hezbollah facilities in southern Beirut before strikes which security sources in Lebanon said demolished two apartment blocks. Afterwards, the IDF said it had hit command centres “deliberately embedded between civilian buildings”.

On Saturday, it had carried out one of its deadliest and most powerful strikes on the centre of Beirut.

Lebanon’s health ministry on Sunday raised the ****** toll from 20 to 29. It said 84 people had been ******* in all on Saturday, taking the ****** toll to 3754 since October 2023.

The IDF did not comment on Saturday’s strike in the capital or say what it had attacked.

******* went on the offensive against the Iran-backed Hezbollah in September, pounding the south, the Bekaa Valley and Beirut’s southern suburbs with air strikes after nearly a year of hostilities ignited by the Gaza war.

The ******** offensive has uprooted more than one million people in Lebanon.

******* says its aim is to secure the return home of tens of thousands of people evacuated from its north due to rocket attacks by Hezbollah, which opened ***** in support of ****** at the start of the Gaza war in October 2023.

US mediator Amos Hochstein highlighted progress in negotiations during a visit to Beirut last week, before travelling to meet ******** Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defence Minister ******* Katz, and then returning to Washington.

********* Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell on Sunday said a US ceasefire proposal was awaiting final approval from *******.

“We must pressure the ******** government and maintain the pressure on Hezbollah to accept the US proposal for a ceasefire,” he said in Beirut after meeting Lebanese officials.

******** media reported that Netanyahu had convened a meeting of his security cabinet for 5pm local time.

Diplomacy has focused on restoring a ceasefire based on UN Security Council Resolution 1701, which ended a 2006 Hezbollah-******* war. It requires Hezbollah to pull its fighters back around 30 km from the ******** border, and the Lebanese army to deploy in the buffer zone.

The Lebanese army said on Sunday at least one soldier had been ******* and 18 more injured in an ******** strike that caused severe damage at an army centre in Al-Amiriya near the southern city of Tyre.

The ******** military said it regretted and was investigating the incident, and that it was fighting against Hezbollah, not the Lebanese Army.

Lebanon’s caretaker prime minister, Najib Mikati, said the ******* “represents a direct ******* message rejecting all efforts to reach a ceasefire, strengthen the army’s presence in the south, and implement … 1701”.

Borrell said the EU was ready to allocate 200 million euros ($A321 million) to support the Lebanese army.

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