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By Abdelraouf Arnaout
JERUSALEM (AA) – Six Israelis were injured in a new rocket barrage from Lebanon on Tuesday as cross-border warfare continues to escalate between Tel Aviv and Hezbollah.
A military statement said 75 rockets were fired from Lebanon, triggering air-raid sirens in northern and central Israel.
The army said some of the rockets were intercepted, while others impacted open areas.
Israeli media said sirens sounded in the Tel Aviv metropolitan area in central Israel after the rocket fire.
Israel's national ambulance service Magen David Adom said its medics treated four people from light wounds by broken glass in central Israel.
Israel’s Army Radio also said two more people sustained light injuries, without providing further details.
Tuesday’s attack was the second on the Tel Aviv area in less than 24 hours after a rocket hit the city of Ramat Gan, east of Tel Aviv, on Monday night.
Hezbollah, for its part, said it targeted the Glilot base, north of Tel Aviv, with a salvo of advanced rockets.
Glilot military base is a key intelligence facility and home to the army’s Unit 8200, responsible for intelligence gathering. It also hosts a military intelligence school and the headquarters of Israel’s Mossad spy agency.
The Lebanese group said it also fired a squadron of drones on the Beit Lid military base, which houses training camps for the Nahal and paratroopers brigades east of Netanya in northern Israel.
Drones also targeted the Ramat David base, a major site for combat squadrons in northern Israel, “hitting its targets accurately,” Hezbollah said.
Israel has been engaged in cross-border warfare with Lebanon over Tel Aviv's ongoing war on the Gaza Strip, launching an air campaign in its northern neighbor against what it claims are targets of the Hezbollah group in late September.
More than 3,500 people have been killed by Israeli attacks in Lebanon, with nearly 15,000 injured and more than a million displaced since last October, according to Lebanese health authorities.
Tel Aviv expanded the conflict by launching a ground assault into southern Lebanon on Oct. 1 this year.
*Writing by Ahmed Asmar and Rania Abu Shamala