Hezbollah Intensifies Missile Attacks Including Tel Aviv Area

Hezbollah Intensifies Missile Attacks Including Tel Aviv Area

One Israeli woman was killed, and several others were injured when a Hezbollah rocket hit an Arab-majority town in northern Israel, local media reported Monday.

“A woman was killed and at least 17 people were wounded in several rocket barrages fired by Hezbollah on Monday, as the terror group launched more than 100 rockets at northern Israel and one missile at the country’s center throughout the day,” The Times of Israel reported.

Several people were also reported injured from the debris of an intercepted Hezbollah missile hit the city of Ramat Gan in Israel’s Tel Aviv district.

“Five people were wounded in the Ramat Gan area in central Israel after a projectile crossed into Israeli territory from Lebanon,” the Jerusalem Post reported.

An Israeli air defense system “intercepted a surface-to-surface missile that crossed from Lebanon at a high altitude,” the Israeli military said in a statement Monday evening. “The debris from the missile hit the ground, causing damage and injuries.”

The large boom in Tel Aviv 5 minutes ago was a Hezbollah rocket that made it through the Iron Dome and hit the ultra-orthodox neighbourhood of Bnei Brak. Let's pray there are no injuries. pic.twitter.com/KyZK5u1tqu

— Saul Sadka (@Saul_Sadka) November 18, 2024

Israeli news website YNET reported the details of the rocket strike on Tel Aviv:

Five people were injured in the blast, which occurred on a nearby road. One, a 54-year-old woman, sustained serious injuries, another was moderately injured and the rest sustained minor injuries. All were transported to Rabin Medical Center in Petah Tikva and Sheba Medical Center in Tel Hashomer for treatment, the Magen David Adom (MDA) ambulance service reported.

The IDF reported intercepting one rocket launched from Lebanon, with debris believed to have caused the damage. Police later confirmed that the damage resulted from a direct hit by a heavy rocket, suggesting that the interception attempt had likely failed.;

Five people were wounded, one seriously, as a result of a direct hit by a Hezbollah rocket in Ramat Gan. There is concern that the building that was damaged my collapse.

🎥 Shimon Baruch/TPS pic.twitter.com/CZj2UW0bvk

— Israel National News – Arutz Sheva (@ArutzSheva_En) November 18, 2024

Nearly 100 food aid trucks looted by armed Palestinian gangs in Gaza, UN admits

Almost 100 aid trucks transporting food to Gaza residents were ambushed and looted by armed Palestinian gangs over the weekend, the United Nations admits. “Nearly 100 trucks carrying food for Palestinians were violently looted on Nov. 16 after entering Gaza, in one of the worst aid losses during 13 months,” Reuters reported Monday.

The UN and mainstream news outlets did not identify the armed outfits behind the latest theft of humanitarian aid. “Armed gunmen attacked and looted” trucks carrying “desperately needed supplies for Palestinians in Gaza,” the British newspaper Guardian reported. The newspaper described the attackers as “Gaza’s criminal gangs.”

Hamas, which had amassed large supplies of fuel and food ahead of the October 7 massacre, has been behind previous attempts of plundering aid coming through Israel — and therefore, taking it away from Gaza civilians.

Reuters reported:

The convoy transporting food provided by U.N. agencies UNRWA and the World Food Programme was instructed by Israel to depart at short notice via an unfamiliar route from Kerem Shalom border crossing, said Louise Wateridge, UNRWA Senior Emergency Officer.

Ninety-eight trucks of the 109-truck convoy were raided and some of the transporters were injured during the incident, she said, without detailing who carried out the ambush.

“This …highlights the severity of access challenges of bringing aid into southern and central Gaza,” she told Reuters. (…)

A WFP spokesperson confirmed the looting and said that many routes in Gaza were currently unpassable due to security issues.

An Israeli official said Israel had been working to address the humanitarian situation since the start of the war, adding that the main problem with aid deliveries was U.N. distribution challenges.

Hamas targeted IDF troops securing aid supplies, and U.S. manning Gaza pier

Not just humanitarian supplies, Hamas has been targeting Israeli soldiers — and at least in one instance, U.S. servicemen — deployed to secure the inflow of aid to Gazans.

In May 2024, four Israeli soldiers were killed in Hamas rocket fire on the Kerem Shalom crossing, the main transit point for humanitarian supplies to southern Gaza.

Earlier this month, U.S. Army Sgt. Quandarius Davon Stanley died of injuries suffered in a Hamas attack in May while securing the Gaza pier — a $320 million ‘humanitarian’ project ordered by President Joe Biden. Two other U.S. servicemen were also injured in the attack. In June, two Israeli soldiers manning the floating pier were also killed by Hamas terrorists.

IDF uncovers Hezbollah underground weapons cache in southern Lebanon

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF)  uncovered an underground Hezbollah weapons depot during the ongoing ground operation in south Lebanon.

According to a statement released by the IDF on Monday, Israeli troops carried out “ground raids in southern Lebanon to remove threats to communities in northern Israel.”

“During the raids, the troops scanned mountainous areas where Hezbollah concealed dozens of its combat compounds both above and below ground. The troops also located multi-barrel launchers, mortars, rocket caches, and military equipment used in Hezbollah’s attacks against Israel over the past year,” the IDF disclosed.

The military also “located and dismantled extensive underground terrorist infrastructure, where Hezbollah stored weapons and established living quarters and a kitchen stocked with food supplies.”

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