Israel’s Channel 12 revealed that the war with Hezbollah has resulted in the deaths of 124 Israelis, 79 soldiers of whom, since the escalation of the war last September.
Israeli army radio reported that sirens sounded 22,715 times in Israel as a result of Hezbollah attacks, including 16,198 warnings due to missile strikes and 6,517 warnings due to drones.
Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper also reported that data from the property tax indicates that more than 9,000 buildings and 7,000 vehicles were completely destroyed in northern Israel due to Hezbollah fire.
The Israeli government has so far paid 140 million shekels ($38.4 million) in compensation for damages, amid expectations that the number will increase due to ongoing evacuations and unreported injuries.
ISRAEL’S COST OF WAR IS $67 BILLION BY YEAR’S END LEADING TO FURTHER DISINVESTMENT
“The Bank of Israel estimated in May that costs arising from the war would total 250 billion shekels ($66 billion) through the end of next year, including military outlays and civilian expenses,… pic.twitter.com/i9zPKcQ0EF
A poll conducted by Israel’s Channel 13 showed that 61% of Israelis believe that their country has not defeated Hezbollah, while 66% of them expressed their support for ending the genocidal war in the Gaza Strip in order to reach a prisoner exchange deal.
The ceasefire agreement between Hezbollah and Israel went into effect at dawn on Wednesday, thus ending more than 13 months of military confrontations across the border and two months of open war between the two sides according to the Palestine Information Center.
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.
At least six Israeli soldiers have taken their own lives in recent months, the Israeli daily Yedioth Ahronoth revealed on Friday, citing severe psychological distress caused by prolonged wars in the Gaza Strip and southern Lebanon as the primary cause.
The investigation suggests the actual number of suicides may be higher, as the Israeli military has yet to release official figures, despite a promise to disclose them by the end of the year.
The report highlights a broader mental health crisis within the Israeli army. Thousands of soldiers have sought help from military mental health clinics or field psychologists, with approximately a third of those affected showing symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
Yedioth Ahronoth:
At least 6 soldiers who fought in Gaza and Lebanon committed suicide in recent months, and the army refuses to reveal the real number of soldiers who committed/attempted suicide.
According to the investigation, the number of soldiers suffering psychological trauma may exceed those with physical injuries from the war.
The daily cites experts as saying the full extent of this mental health crisis will become clear once military operations are completed and troops return to normal life.
In March, Lucian Tatsa-Laur, head of the Israeli military’s mental health department, told Haaretz that approximately 1,700 soldiers had received psychological treatment.
Multiple reports have since emerged indicating that thousands of troops are suffering from mental health issues owing to extended deployments in Gaza and southern Lebanon.
Regional tension has escalated due to Israel’s brutal offensive on the Gaza Strip, which has killed over 44,000 people, mostly women and children, since a Hamas attack last year.
The second year of the genocide in Gaza has drawn growing international condemnation, with figures and institutions labeling the attacks and blocking of aid deliveries as a deliberate attempt to destroy a population.
Israel also faces a genocide case at the International Court of Justice for its deadly war on Gaza.
In a landmark move, the International Criminal Court on Thursday announced it had issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant over war crimes in Palestinian territories, including Gaza.
The conflict has spread to Lebanon, with Israel launching deadly strikes across the country in an escalation from a year of cross-border warfare between Israel and Hezbollah since the start of the Gaza war.
Panic and anxiety struck Israelis after a rocket fired from Lebanon fell directly on a building in Tel Aviv. Later they spoke about the damage caused by the projectile and the shock they felt after it fell.
The Israeli media reported the “terrible destruction that befell the building in Ramat Gan after the rocket fell; They “wondererd “how can everything be routine after an evening like this!”
Israeli Radio Kol Hai stated in a media statement “the radio studios, opposite the place where the rocket fell, were damaged. It confirmed “damage to the radio building and technical equipment, while the radio employees were in the fortified room, which is used as a synagogue, moment the rocket fell.”
The Israeli media also quoted a settler: “When the sirens started in our area, I never thought about standing at the window and taking pictures, but I immediately ran for cover,” and then “a rocket fell 10 meters from my house and shattered the windows, while my body went into a state of pain due to the shock.”
Meanwhile the Israeli media reported that “settlers began collecting the rocket fragments and exchanging them,” as the rocket fell in Ramat Gan.
At least five people have been injured following a rocket barrage by Hezbollah, which struck near a shopping centre in the city of Ramat Gan on November 18
It pointed out “dozens of young men, after the rocket fell in Ramat Gan Monday, came and began collecting the many rocket fragments in the area.”
One eyewitness described: “They [Israelis] began exchanging: I give you a large fragment and you give me two small fragments,” asking: “Since when has this been the custom?”
One media source stated: “People think these rockets are a toy, they do not realize how dangerous they are until they falls on their heads.”
Monday, Hezbollah said it bombed the Tel Haim base (of the Military Intelligence Division of the Israeli occupation army), 120 km from the Lebanese-Israeli border, in Tel Aviv, with a salvo of high-quality rockets and a squadron of attack drones, which hit their targets with precision.
As Hezbollah’s missiles hit their targets, the Israeli media speculated what their type was, especially the missile that fell on the “Greater Tel Aviv” area and directly hit a building after Israeli air defense systems failed to intercept it. The Israeli media further suggested that the missile launched from Lebanon was a Fateh 110 type with a range of 300 km.
The Ramat Gan police chief acknowledged the damage caused was by “a direct hit, not by interception shrapnel” and expressing “fear of the collapse of buildings”.
He pointed out that “Hezbollah used a missile carrying a very heavy warhead, which caused great destruction in Ramat Gan,” according to Al Mayadeen.
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