At least 19 people were injured overnight from Friday to Saturday in Tira, central Israel, when a rocket fell on a building, authorities announced. “Here is the result of a direct strike froma 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 partially gutted building overnight.
According to the Israeli police, of the 19 injured hospitalized, four suffered moderate injuries and the other fifteen suffered minor injuries. The army said on Telegram that it had identified three projectiles fired from Lebanon towards central Israel and had intercepted several of them.
Tira, a predominantly Arab town, is located about 25 km northeast of Tel Aviv, near the border with the occupied West Bank. The war that has raged since October 7, 2023 in the Gaza Strip has spread to Lebanon, where Israel has been waging since September 23 massive airstrikes 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. On Thursday, rocket fire from Lebanon caused seven dead in Metula, northern Israel, including four Thai farm workers.
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