Hezbollah said on Tuesday it had fired two volleys of a total of 90 rockets at an Israeli military base near Safed, in northern Israel, after Lebanon was hit by intense Israeli attacks.
"In defense of Lebanon and its people", Hezbollah fighters targeted the "Dado base", near Safed in the north of Israel, the headquarters of the Northern Command of the Israeli army, with a total of 90 rockets, Hezbollah said.
Israel's ambassador to the United Nations (UN), Dani Danon, said today that Israel does not want a land invasion of Lebanon and would prefer a diplomatic solution to end the conflict with Hezbollah.
"We had experience with Lebanon in 2006. We have no desire for a land invasion anywhere. I don't want to send my son there. We don't want to send our boys to fight in a foreign country," said an Israeli diplomat on the sidelines of the annual session of the General Assembly. of the UN Assembly, France Pres.
Danon, however, added that Israel will do whatever is necessary to stop the rocket fire that has displaced tens of thousands of Israelis from the north of the country.
"We prefer a diplomatic solution, but if it doesn't work, we use other methods to show the other side that we are serious," the Israeli ambassador said, adding that everything will be done to return the residents of the north to their homes.
He made the comments on Sunday after a rapid escalation of hostilities between Israel and the Lebanese extremist group Hezbollah, including a wave of Israeli airstrikes that killed more than 550 Lebanese on Monday.
Danon announced that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu still plans to speak at the UN this Sunday at the annual meeting of world leaders, but added that "things are dynamic," the Associated Press reported.
Israeli media reported that Netanyahu would speak at the session on Thursday, instead of Friday as originally planned, in order to return to Israel immediately.
Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Galant said today that Hezbollah has suffered "extremely serious blows" and that Israel has additional strikes ready.
Speaking to the soldiers after an exercise simulating a ground offensive on Lebanon, Galant assessed that Hezbollah today is not what it was a week ago, and that the blows it faced in its command and control among operatives and weapons are extremely serious.
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