CROSSFIREARABIA – The number of Hezbollah missiles launched from southern Lebanon, Sunday, has increased to 340.
This is the largest single volley of missiles Hezbollah struck north and center Israel in a single day since 7 October, 2023.
These trajectories, including missiles and drones have reached all parts, cities, towns, settlements and military and naval bases across Israel, reaching to the Ashdod Port just before the northern Gaza Strip.
The major city of Tel Aviv took a battering on Sunday, 24 November, 2024, being volley-struck four times in a single day – the biggest ever scare since 7 October.
Today, sirens, according to Israeli sources went off 500 times across Israel with four million Israelis spending their day in underground shelters.
Military expert Brigadier-General Elias Hanna said that Hezbollah is trying – through its intensive rocket barrages towards central Israel, Sunday – “to draw a new equation whose title is the heart of Beirut versus Tel Aviv.” He explained that Hezbollah has proven its ability to launch rockets from the front lines into the Israeli interior, pointing to the large number of rockets it launched today compared to a previous daily average of between 70 and 100 rockets.
For Israel, it’s a first nation-wide alert with 24th November, 2024 likely to be remembered as one of the most difficult days between the Israeli army and Hezbollah fighters.
Over 250 missiles have landed on different parts of Israel including Naharya, Acca, Haifa, Beith Takfah, West Galilee, Krayot, HaSharon, Herzilya, Tel Aviv and the port of Ashdod, bordering Gaza, which is 150 kilometers away from Tel Aviv.
It speaks much about the encroachment of the so-called “Israeli depth” that today lies bare with Hamas in the south and Hezbollah in the north.
Direct missile hit reported in Tel Aviv
Preliminarily, 170 rockets were fired at Israeli territory in the last few hours. 54 of them were intercepted. pic.twitter.com/6Y7HExG5Jt
This is being described as “unprecedented” in a wide set of attacks covering at least half of Israel and is trending on the social media with its continual updates.
It began on early Sunday morning, after Israeli warplanes bombed the southern district of Beirut leading to many deaths and injuries.
The rockets on northern Israel that included military bases near Tel Aviv had been climbing from 150 missiles, some of who are ballistic to 170 with the latest figure standing at 200 and 250 and set to increase.
Damages and fires is being reported in the Israeli media with at least 10 people being injured but this is being described as the “war of missiles.”
With these projectiles landing on Israel daily – they increased in intensity when Israeli decided to stage its air and land war on Lebanon last September with the killing of Hezbollah’s Chief Hassan Nasrallah, the escalation on the Jewish state have continued daily.
The only people that seems to be affected by this are civilians. Whilst Israel’s war on Lebanon have displaced 1.4 million people in the south of the country, hundreds of thousands of Israelis have also been displaced from their homes and living in sheltered accommodation.
But apart from that up to two million Israelis in central Israel and the Tel Aviv conurbation have been “running up-and-down” between underground shelters.
Red alerts as of 18:00 today, November 24, 2024:
🔸 Red alerts: 401 (314 rocket alerts, 87 UAV alerts) in 11 regions. 🔸 Unique areas with sirens: 237
⭕️ Confrontation Line — Shlomi (×5), Shomera (×6), Shtula (×4), Tel Hai, Kiryat Shmona (×7), Margaliot (×2), Kibutz Dan, Beit… pic.twitter.com/biaHE3YPDB
Today sirens dominate the Israeli scene, going on and off on all hours of the day, at night, early mornings, when people are asleep and during the day.
The rockets, missiles, sirens have made life so unbearable that life has changed dramatically with hundreds thousands already left the country and many more thousands are thinking of actively getting out.
Today, the atmosphere in Israel – never been experienced before and judged from the siren blasts at 401 sound alerts in 11 regions – is tense and downright frightful, a bit like Gaza or the southern district of Beirut. Its no longer the place its original founders intended it to be.
The new message is “you can’t enjoy yoursleves while living on the lands of another people; all must suffer the consequences. Israelis are realizing that. Their way out is through the congested Ben Gurion Airport which is topsy-turvy shutdown due to the daily missiles and drones.
Gazan witness Imad Hamdan describes a deeply emotional and tragic situation, where a bereaved mother from Gaza is given an offer by a gravedigger about the way to burry her two children.
The mother, in a state of shock, responds by suggesting that perhaps her third child, who is in critical condition in the ICU, can be buried next to her siblings.
At this situation, Imad Hamdan expresses the overwhelming anguish and the madness of a situation that Gazan mothers undergo in the current relentless war, describing it as so unfathomable that it pushes the limits of human understanding.
The dead body of Zvi Kogan, thought to be Israeli occupation soldier and settler who has gone missing, has been found by security forces in the UAE according to the Quds News Network.
The story of the missing person has been developing at least since Thursday when Israeli official sources confirmed that the Israeli soldier, deemed to be a rabbi and representative of the Chabad organization, was kidnapped in the UAE, according to the Israeli Kan news channel.
BREAKING: Israeli official sources confirm that Israeli rabbi Zvi Kogan, a representative of the Chabad organization, has been kidnapped in the UAE, according to the Israeli news channel Kan. pic.twitter.com/7Xwtg6kjAz
His whereabouts have been unknown for several days but since became at the center of an ongoing investigation. According to Hebrew media sources, Israeli authorities are probing the possibility that he was kidnapped or killed by an Iranian-affiliated cell.
His name is trending on the social media with one website reporting it was a ‘Uzbek cell’ that killed him.