The air defense system intercepted this Wednesday a "suspicious target" that was flying over the coast of the tourist city of Acre (Ako), located next to the Mediterranean and near the border with Lebanon, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) reported. who are on alert for a possible attack by Iran and its allied terrorist organizations.
«An interceptor was launched towards a suspected aerial target in the coastal area of Acre. "No siren sounded according to protocol," reported the IDF, which is reviewing the incident.
An interceptor missile was launched toward a "suspicious aerial target" off the coast of Acre a short while ago, the IDF says.
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No sirens sounded.
The IDF says it is still investigating the incident. pic.twitter.com/sDK74w9hvT
Last night, the anti-aircraft sirens were activated in the Malkia area, in northern Israel, when about 15 projectiles crossed from Lebanon, indicates a military statement, which specifies that the projectiles fell in unpopulated areas and caused no victims.
Last night, the Israeli Air Force attacked a launcher and a military structure of the Lebanese Shiite terrorist group Hezbollah in Kfarkela and At Tiri, southern Lebanon.
The border between Lebanon and Israel is experiencing its highest peak of violence since the 2006 war, after Hezbollah began attacks last October, in solidarity with the Islamic terrorist group Hamas, which is waging a war with Israel in the Gaza Strip. .
The crisis worsened further after the elimination of Hezbollah's top commander, Fuad Shukr, in an Israeli bombing raid on the outskirts of Beirut on July 31, in retaliation for a rocket attack by the Shiite terrorist group in which twelve children were killed. on a soccer field in the Druze town of Majdal Shams, in the Golan Heights, northern Israel.
Hours later, the then leader of the political office of the Palestinian Islamic terrorist organization Hamas, Ismail Haniyeh, was killed in an attack in Tehran that Iranian authorities attribute to Israel.
Iran and its "Axis of Resistance" - made up of Hamas and the Islamic Jihad in Judea and Samaria (West Bank) and Gaza, Hezbollah in Lebanon, the Houthi rebels in Yemen, the Islamic Resistance in Iraq and other terrorist groups in Syria - swore avenge those deaths with a large-scale attack, and since then Israel has been on alert.
Yesterday Hamas launched two rockets from the Gaza Strip, of which one fell into the sea off Tel Aviv, leaving no victims, the other projectile failed to cross into Israeli airspace and fell in the coastal enclave.
Also yesterday, at least two people were killed - including a Hezbollah terrorist - by the bombing of an Israeli drone against a vehicle traveling in the Barachit area of southern Lebanon, the latest in a series of targeted attacks carried out by Israel.
Defense Minister Yoav Gallant called on the country's citizens, especially those in the north, to remain "vigilant, alert and prepared."
However, reports on Israeli television citing unnamed Iranian sources claim that Iran could refrain from attacking Israel if negotiations for a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip are successful.
The escalation on the Israel-Lebanon border that broke out in October has claimed the lives of 605 people, most on the Lebanese side and in the ranks of Hezbollah, which has confirmed 376 casualties among troops and commanders, some in Syria.
In Israel, 48 people have died in the north, of which 22 were soldiers and 26 were civilians, including the 12 minors who were killed in the violent attack against the Druze town of Majdal Shams, in the Golan Heights.
Agencies contributed to this Aurora article