Hezbollah claims attack on Safed, northern Israel

Hezbollah announced that it had fired a “large salvo of rockets” at 9:30 a.m. on the town of Safed, located a dozen kilometers from the border. According to Haaretz, warning sirens did sound in the area around 9:30 a.m., but there have been no reports of casualties or damage yet.

On September 23, after nearly a year of war of attrition on the southern border against Hezbollah, Israel launched a major offensive in South Lebanon and the Bekaa, which resulted in the displacement of more than a million people, and at least 2,986 dead and 13,402 injured.

Earlier in the morning, the Shiite party claimed responsibility for two other attacks against Israeli villages in the border area “as part of its warning” launched on October 26 to residents of 24 localities. The towns of Ayelet Hachahar were targeted by Shiite party rockets at 12:05 a.m., and Sha’al, Hazor and Dalton two minutes later, according to two press releases. Hezbollah also claimed responsibility for a rocket attack on the Israeli Meron air surveillance base shortly after midnight.