Israeli media reported on Friday that several fires broke out in the occupied Syrian Golan Heights and the Upper Galilee in northern Israel following rockets fired from Lebanon.
Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth reported several fires in the settlement of Qatsrin in the Golan Heights, where three rescue teams are working to control them.
According to the same newspaper, another fire broke out in the Hatzor HaGlilit settlement in the Upper Galilee region as a result of a rocket being intercepted from southern Lebanon, where firefighting teams controlled it.
The newspaper did not mention any human casualties.
Earlier on Friday, Israeli media outlets reported that Israel had monitored the launch of more than 100 rockets from Lebanon since Friday morning, causing fires and material damage with no human casualties. Sirens went off in dozens of northern settlements.
Last Monday, the Israeli army announced the establishment of a “closed military zone” in three border settlements with Lebanon: Metula, Misgav Am and Kfar Giladi.
On Tuesday, Tel Aviv announced the start of a ground operation in southern Lebanon, which Israeli officials claim “will not last more than weeks and aims to establish an isolated security zone,” while Lebanese authorities warn of a violation of the country’s sovereignty and the existence of occupation intentions on Israel’s part.
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Since 23 September, Israel has launched the most violent and extensive attack on Lebanon since the beginning of the confrontations with Hezbollah about a year ago, which resulted, as of Thursday evening, in no less than 1,156 deaths, including children and women, more than 3,191 wounded and 1.2 million displaced, according to Anadolu Agency’s monitoring of official Lebanese data.
Sirens continue to sound at an unprecedented frequency across Israel, following Hezbollah’s heavy firing of missiles, drones and artillery shells targeting military sites and settlements. This is occurring amid a strict Israeli blackout on human and material losses, according to observers.
Lebanese and Palestinian factions in Lebanon, most notably Hezbollah, have been exchanging daily shelling with the Israeli army across the Blue Line since 8 October, 2023, resulting in a total of no less than 2,011 dead and 9,535 wounded, according to figures from the Lebanese Ministry of Health on Friday.
The factions are demanding an end to the genocide committed by Israel with US support in the Gaza Strip since 7 October, which has left more than 138,000 Palestinians dead and wounded, most of them women and children, with more than 10,000 missing, amid massive destruction and a deadly famine, in one of the worst humanitarian disasters globally.