The Israeli Armed Forces announced this on Wednesday. “extensive wave of attacks” against Lebanese territory following a rocket attack carried out by a Shiite militia party Hezbollah against the Israeli city of Safed, which led to at least one was killed and seven were injured.
According to the position of the Israeli emergency service “Maguem David Adom”, as quoted by the public channel Khan, The woman was found dead by arriving paramedics They checked shell-damaged buildings in the city of Safed, where at least 7 people were slightly to moderately injured by shells fired from Lebanon.
“Air Force plane launched a massive wave of attacks on Lebanese territory“, the Israeli Air Force said in a short message on its social media account X.
After the attack on Safed, the army stated that one of the targets was Northern Command base in the areaafter which he confirmed the attacks on the “sources of the shots.”
Smoke rises over Lebanon, as seen from Tyre. Photo: Reuters Archive
The city is located located approximately thirteen kilometers from the border with Lebanonthe site of clashes between the Israeli army and Hezbollah since October 8, following attacks carried out the previous day against Israel by the Islamist group Hamas.
rocket launch meant an attack deeper inside Israel implying a new surge in violence against Lebanese militias.
Shortly afterwards, Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir said that the attack this is a declaration of war and called for a change in the authorities’ position regarding the situation on the border with Lebanon, while opposition leader Avigdor Lieberman from the nationalist Yisrael Beytenu party He was critical of the decisions of the military cabinet. created after the Hamas terrorist attacks.
Tensions between Israel and Iran-backed Hezbollah have risen sharply after the death of Hamas number two Saleh al-Arouri in early January, and six other Palestinian militia members, including two senior officials from the group’s armed wing, the Ezzeldin al-Qassam Brigades, in a bombing blamed on the Israeli army against the Lebanese capital Beirut.
Israeli officials evacuate a man wounded by a rocket after shelling from Lebanon. Photo: Reuters
On the border between both countriesCrossfire between the Israeli army and the Lebanese Shiite faction continues daily.caused by rising regional tensions as a result of the war in the Gaza Strip.
Shortly after October 7, the day the war between Israel and Hamas began, militias in Lebanon launch projectiles and attack Israel, which responds attacks on targets of pro-Palestinian armed groups and Hezbollah in southern Lebanon.
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Yesterday was Tuesday The 15-year-old and his 47-year-old mother were seriously injured after Lebanese militias attacked the northern Israeli town of Kiryat Shmona with anti-tank missiles.
An Israeli soldier stands next to a mobile artillery unit near the border between Israel and Lebanon. Photo: Reuters
For more than four months of crossfire At least 261 people have died so far: 19 in Israel, including 12 soldiers and 6 civilians; and 242 in Lebanon, including 193 Hezbollah members (some of them in Syria), about 29 Palestinian militia members, one soldier and 19 civilians -among them are three children and three journalists-.
More than 160 thousand people were forced to leave their homes. on both sides of the border.
(according to information from Europe Press And EFE)