Israel’s main passenger airport was struck by a Hezbollah rocket, after the Lebanese militia launched a missile attack on Thursday morning.
Air raid sirens went off across central and northern Israel at around 11.30am as a wave of rockets rained down on the country.
Smoke was seen rising above Tel Aviv Ben Gurion airport, the busiest in Israel and a crater was photographed in what appeared to be a car park.
The airport normally serves more than 20 million passengers a year, but has seen a drastic cut in numbers since the outbreak of war.
Flights were temporarily suspended during the attack but have since resumed, the Israel Airports Authority said.
Debris from a rocket also struck a parked car in the central city of Ra’anana.
A photo shows part of the missile lodged in the roof of the vehicle, which was badly damaged.
Israel‘s Defence Forces (IDF) said Hezbollah had fired ten rockets, most of which were shot down.
Hezbollah has continued to bombard Israel with its missiles and drones, since the IDF invaded Lebanon.
Israel said it had eliminated another top Hezbollah commander, as it continues its military campaign in Lebanon.
Hussein Abd al-Halim Harb was killed in a recent air strike and is just the latest top-brass casualty suffered by the Iran-backed militia.
The IDF says he was responsible for numerous rocket attacks on towns in the Galilee, especially Metula where five people were recently killed.
His death comes in the wake of Israeli air strikes on Wednesday that killed at least 40 people in eastern Lebanon, according to the country’s health ministry.
An Israeli official said the strikes targeted members of Hezbollah in the governorates of Baalbek and Bekaa.
Lebanon’s culture minister said one of the strikes also seriously damaged an Ottoman-era building in the city of Baalbek, which is a Unesco World Heritage site.
Mohammad Mortada said the ancient Manshiya building had suffered serious damage as a result of the attack.
“The destruction of this exceptional monument next to a Unesco World Heritage site is an irremediable loss for Lebanon and for world heritage,” he warned.
