Hezbollah says it targeted Mossad headquarters with ballistic missile intercepted near Tel Aviv

 Hezbollah on Wednesday said it launched a ballistic missile toward the headquarters of Israel’s intelligence service Mossad near Tel Aviv, shortly after the Israeli military said it intercepted the attack in what is a rare assault far from the frontlines. 

The militant group said it launched a Qadr 1 ballistic missile targeting the Mossad headquarters in the suburbs of Tel Aviv “in support of our steadfast Palestinian people in Gaza” and in “defense of Lebanon and its people.” 

The Israeli military said earlier the missile was intercepted near Tel Aviv and that its air force struck the launcher from which it was fired in the area of Nafakhiyeh in Lebanon.