Israel detected this Tuesday the arrival of more than one hundreds of projectiles against the north of the country, mainly the city of Haifa and adjacent areas of Galilee, shot by Hezbollah from Lebanon after a year of open confrontation.
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Most of the projectiles were intercepted and only some fell in open areas, according to the Army. The arrival of the rockets occurred in two consecutive batches: a first of 85 projectiles and a second of 20.
The shells activated anti-aircraft alarms in the northern city, but also in the Upper Galilee and Central Galilee regions.
The Israeli emergency service, Magen David Adom, reported a 71-year-old woman with a minor shrapnel wound to her arm. “We treated her at the scene and evacuated her to the hospital,” said a spokesperson for the emergency team.
Yesterday, Army soldiers identified Hezbollah terrorists entering a school building
An hour earlier, another 25 rockets had been fired from the neighboring country against the northern region of Lower Galilee and the city of Tiberias.
In response, the Army attacked the Hezbollah launchers from which the projectiles were fired, as they announced shortly afterwards in a statement.
Around 3:00 p.m. local time, the armed forces reported that in total throughout the day, about 135 projectiles were fired into Israeli territory.
Regarding its activities in the south of the neighboring country, Israel also claimed to have destroyed rocket launchers in a school in the Tayr Haifa area, in the southwest of Lebanon and about three kilometers from the border.
“Yesterday, Army soldiers identified Hezbollah terrorists entering a school building,” the armed forces announced today in this regard.
Besides, the Air Force bombed overnight a weapons warehouse of the pro-Iran group in Beirut.
One year ago today, Hezbollah opened fire on northern Israel in what they described as a gesture of solidarity with “the Palestinian people” following the start of the Israeli offensive in the Gaza Strip, which remains in place for twelve months and nearly 42,000 dead after.
This Tuesday the Army announced that a fourth division It already operates in the south of Lebanon, specifically in the southwest, joining three other divisions that had already been called up after the ground invasion eight days ago.
Since the beginning of an intense Israeli bombing campaign in Lebanon, about two weeks ago, more than 1.2 million people were forced to leave their homes.
Furthermore, since a year ago, more than 2,080 people have died and some 9,800 have been injuredaccording to the Emergency Operations Center of the Ministry of Health, the majority in recent weeks.
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