The Israeli army announced on Saturday that a synagogue had been hit in a “major” salvo of rockets fired by the Lebanese Islamist movement Hezbollah on the city of Haifa (northwest), leaving two injured.
“This is another clear example of how Hezbollah deliberately targets Israeli civilians” from neighboring Lebanon, the army announced in a statement, without providing details on the state of health of the injured. .
In another statement, the army reported “around 10 projectiles” fired at Haifa Bay, some of which were intercepted.
A spokesperson for Magen David Adom, Israel's equivalent of the Red Cross, said in a statement that its teams in Haifa had reported “no casualties” from rocket fragments at this stage, but that five people were “slightly” injured while rushing into air raid shelters.
The Israeli army also announced on Saturday the death of one of its soldiers in southern Lebanon, bringing to 48 the number of its soldiers killed in fighting with Hezbollah since the start of its ground offensive in this area. region on September 30.
The Israeli army launched an intense bombing campaign in Lebanon on September 23, followed by the ground offensive.
She says she wants to neutralize Hezbollah in the border regions of southern Lebanon to allow the return of residents of northern Israel, displaced by more than a year of rocket fire.
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