BEIRUT: Hezbollah has said that it has fired a ballistic missile at the Israeli city of Tel Aviv on Wednesday, with Israel launching more attacks on Lebanon.
According to AFP, Israel had conducted air strikes on areas around Lebanon on Wednesday, following attacks earlier this week killed around 558 people in the deadliest day of violence since the 1975-1990 civil war.
Lebanese officials said that hundreds of thousands of civilians have fled their shelters in southern and eastern Lebanon to escape the violence between Israel and Hezbollah.
AFP reported that in Tel Aviv, Israel sirens sounded after Hezbollah’s unprecedented missile launch, which the Israeli army intercepted. Tel Aviv resident Hedva Fadlon told AFP that the situation is very difficult and they felt the pressure and the tension. Hedva Fadlon stated that no one in the world live like this.
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Meanwhile, Lebanese Foreign Minister Abdallah Bou Habib has voiced disappointment with US President Joe Biden’s remarks regarding the escalating crisis between Israel and Lebanon on Tuesday, but hoped the United States could intervene to help.
“It was not promising and strong and it would not solve this issue,” Abdallah Bou Habib said of Biden’s speech at the UN earlier in the day.
Bou Habib expressed hope that the US is the only nation that can really make a difference in the region and with regard to Lebanon. The Minister for Foreign Affairs made these remarks in New York during a virtual event organized by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
