AA / Zain Khalil
Fifteen missiles launched from southern Lebanon fell on Wednesday in the Western Galilee region in northern Israel without triggering sirens, while a fire broke out in a house hit by an anti-missile fire. tank, Israeli media report.
“The Israeli army spokesperson said that earlier today (Wednesday) 10 rockets were detected in the Moshav Shumera area of the western Galilee,” Yedioth Ahronoth reported.
The newspaper adds that all these rockets fell in open areas, causing no damage and causing no casualties.
He continued: “In addition, no alarms were raised in the area and the incident remains under investigation.
The same Source further specifies: “After the sirens were triggered in the towns of Natua and Shtoula in the western Galilee, five rockets were observed; they all fell in open areas and caused no damage or injuries.”
In a related context, an anti-tank missile hit a house in the “Avivim” settlement in Upper Galilee, and eyewitnesses reported to Yedioth Ahronoth that a fire broke out there, but no injuries were reported. reported.
A day after the death of a Lebanese woman and a little girl following an Israeli raid that destroyed a house in a southern town, Hezbollah and Israel exchanged strikes on border sites and towns on Wednesday.
While Hezbollah claimed in separate statements on Wednesday to have bombed Israeli targets, including the settlements of “Shomera and Avivim”, Tel Aviv announced that it had carried out a raid against the group’s “infrastructure” in several southern cities. of Lebanon, notably “Markaba, Aita al-Shaab, and Marwahin”.
“In solidarity with the Gaza Strip, which is suffering a devastating Israeli war with US support, Hezbollah and the Lebanese and Palestinian factions exchange daily strikes with the Israeli army on the border, causing deaths and injuries on both sides, mostly on the Lebanese side.
Israel has been waging a deadly offensive against the Gaza Strip since the cross-border attack launched on October 7, 2023, by the Palestinian resistance movement, Hamas. Tel Aviv says nearly 1,200 people were killed in the Hamas attack.
The toll of the offensive carried out by Israel since then shows 34,183 Palestinians killed and 77,143 others injured, while 85% of the population of Gaza have been forced to move within the territory, in a context of serious shortages of food, drinking water and medicine, and that 60% of the enclave’s infrastructure has been damaged or destroyed, according to the United Nations.
Israel continues its murderous war despite the adoption of a Security Council resolution demanding an immediate ceasefire, also ignoring the first proceedings brought against it before the International Court of Justice for “the crime of genocide”.
*Translated from English by Mourad Belhaj
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