At least 11 injured in Israel as Hezbollah attacks with more than 250 rockets against the country
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Madrid, 24 (Europa Press)
At least 11 people were injured in Israel this Sunday after the Shiite Hezbollah militia launched more than 250 rockets from Lebanon, which fell in different areas of the country or were intercepted by Israeli forces since last midnight.
The injured included a 60-year-old man, in critical condition, who was hit by shrapnel from a rocket impact in the town of Kfar Blum, according to the Israeli emergency service.
Two other people were injured, but slightly, after at least one Hezbollah rocket hit a residential building in the city of Haifa in the north of the country, according to Magen David Adom, the Israeli emergency service. Two people have been slightly injured in this attack.
Hezbollah’s attack comes a day after a bombardment launched by Israel against the center of the Lebanese capital Beirut, and which has so far killed more than 20 people and injured 60, marking a resurgence of hostilities between Israel and One of the most deadly since. Hezbollah in late September.
The militia has claimed responsibility for all of these attacks, especially the attacks launched against Kfar Blum and, above all, the Israeli military base of Shraga, located north of Acre, where is the “administrative headquarters” of the Golani Brigade which controlled the southern Lebanon has been attacked. ,
Hezbollah claimed responsibility for two other attacks around Tel Aviv, one of them against the Gilot intelligence base, the headquarters of Israel’s 8200th military intelligence unit, and the other in Petah Tikva, east of the city, in which three people were injured. . ,
Hezbollah also claimed to have fired drones at the Israeli military’s Ashdod naval base, without confirmation from the Israeli military at this time.
Israel responds with new attacks against Beirut
Amid intense rocket fire from Lebanon, the Israeli military’s Arabic spokesman, Colonel Avichai Adrai, has issued a warning to evacuate two buildings in Beirut’s southern suburbs.
These attacks began immediately after the Israeli announcement and, as Lebanese media have been able to confirm, there is currently no information on casualties. According to ‘L’Orient Le Jour’, the bombings were carried out against a dozen buildings in the neighborhoods of Bourj el Brajne, Hadath, Haret Harik and Ghobairy.