Hezbollah targets Mossad headquarters with longer-range missile

Hezbollah has launched missile towards Mossad headquarters in Tel Aviv, sending a message to the world today.

“There is no de-escalation. There is no diplomacy. Just Hezbollah and the Israeli army attacking each other,” says Al Jazeera reporter Imran Khan while reporting from Lebanon.

Hezbollah has used one of their longer-range missiles, for the first time since October 8, when hostilities broke out between Israel and Hezbollah.

Hezbollah says they launched the missiles from their territory against the Mossad headquarters just outside Tel Aviv, in direct revenge for the walkie-talkie and pager attacks the world witnessed last week.

“Now it’s only one missile, so it’s more than likely to be a message from Hezbollah that they still have ballistic missile capability,” Imran said. “The Israeli army says that their missile defence system actually intercepted it.”

Imran emphasised that the fear for the Israelis is that “the missile defence system simply gets overwhelmed.”

“They have to shoot up a missile to shoot down a missile. So if you send more than what the actual defence system can handle, then some of those missiles will land in Tel Aviv.”