Hezbollah launches dozens of rockets into northern Israel

AP , Wednesday 25 Sep 2024

Hezbollah has launched dozens of rockets into northern Israel in retaliation to heavy Israeli airstrikes across large parts of Lebanon.

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Israeli security forces cordon off the site of a rocket attack, fired from Lebanon, in Kibbutz Saar, north of Nahariya on September 25, 2024. AFP

 

The Israeli army said that at one point on Wednesday, more than 40 projectiles were launched simultaneously, though most were intercepted.

The municipality in the northern city of Safed said a projectile hit a home, causing a fire.

There were no injuries as the residents were not there, it said. Safed has been a frequent target for Hezbollah due to military infrastructure in the area.

Earlier on Wednesday, Hezbollah fired a missile at Tel Aviv, triggering air raid sirens. 

The Lebanese resistance group said it had fired a ballistic missile targeting Israeli spy agency Mossad's headquarters, saying that recent attacks on Lebanon had been planned there.

The Israeli army said it intercepted the projectile, and there were no casualties or damage adding it was launching more “extensive strikes” across southern and eastern Lebanon.

Lebanon said at least 23 people were killed and 95 wounded in Israeli strikes on Wednesday, including two rare strikes in a village north of Beirut and a mountain areas outside Hezbollah's traditional strongholds in the south and east.

Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency(NNA) reported that Israeli strikes Wednesday also hit a town near the northern coastal town of Byblos.

As thousands of Lebanese flee the airstrikes from the country’s southern and eastern provinces, NNA said Israel launched three strikes airstrikes over the northeastern city of Hermel, the town of Labweh, and a handful of towns and villages across the country’s southern province.

Israel have killed over 560 people, in some of Lebanon’s deadliest days since Israel’s war with Hezbollah in 2006.

 

* This story was edited by Ahram Online.

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