The events occurred during the night from Friday to Saturday and early this Saturday morning. Hopes for a US-led ceasefire have faded in recent days.
Rocket fire from Lebanon injured 19 people in central Israel on Saturday when one of them hit a house, according to Israeli emergency services. THE fighting intensified in recent weeks between Israeli forces and Lebanese Hezbollah, and hopes of a ceasefire under the leadership of the United States have faded in recent days.
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Rocket salvos were also fired at locations in northern Israel. “We went out and saw dust, [il y avait] screams of children, screams of women and everyone headed towards the house that was hit”, said Qasim Mohab, a resident of the city of Tirahit by a rocket. “We were able to evacuate and save those inside the house and, thank God, we were fortunate that there were no deaths.” Air raid sirens continued to sound in northern Israel as rocket fire in from Lebanon continued, according to the army.
Lebanese Hezbollah also claimed to have fired on a Military Intelligence base near Tel Avivin central Israel. At 2:30 a.m. (1:30 a.m. in France), Hezbollah fighters “fired a salvo of rockets at the Glilot base of Military Intelligence Unit 8200 in the suburbs of Tel Aviv”affirmed the pro-Iranian movement in a press release.
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On Friday, Lebanon's health ministry said 52 people were killed in Israeli strikes on more than a dozen towns in the Baalbek region, home to UNESCO-listed Roman ruins. THE Hezbollah, supported by Iranbegan firing rockets at Israel in support of its Palestinian ally, Hamas, a day after the October 7, 2023 attack on Israel by Hamas militants, which killed some 1,200 people and brought 251 hostages back to Gaza , according to Israeli counts.
More than 43,000 Palestinians have been killed since then in the Israeli offensive in Gaza, according to the Hamas-run enclave's health ministry, and at least 2,897 people have been killed in Lebanon, the health ministry said. Lebanese Friday. According to Israeli authorities, 71 people in Israel and the occupied territories were killed by Hezbollah fire.
