19 injured by a Hezbollah rocket in the center of the country

19 injured by a Hezbollah rocket in the center of the country
19 injured by a Hezbollah rocket in the center of the country

AAt least nineteen people were injured overnight from Friday to Saturday in Tira, central Israel, when a rocket hit a building, Israeli authorities said. Tira, a predominantly Arab town, is located about 25 km northeast of Tel Aviv, near the border with the occupied West Bank.

“This is the result of a direct strike from a Hezbollah rocket in the Arab Israeli town of Tira, injuring 19 civilians,” the Israeli Foreign Ministry wrote on its X account, showing images of an explosion and 'a building partially gutted in the night.

According to Israeli police, of the nineteen injured hospitalized, four suffered moderate injuries and the other fifteen suffered minor injuries.

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The army said on Telegram that it had identified three projectiles fired from Lebanon towards central Israel and had intercepted several of them. The war that has been raging since October 7, 2023 in the Gaza Strip has spread to Lebanon, where Israel has been carrying out massive airstrikes since September 23 against the Shiite movement Hezbollah, an ally of Palestinian Hamas.

Israel says it wants to neutralize Hezbollah in southern Lebanon to allow the return of some 60,000 inhabitants of the north of its territory displaced by incessant rocket fire since the start of the war in Gaza.


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