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Israel detects 70 rockets fired from Lebanon towards northern Israel

October 11, 2024 at 4:54 pm

Rockets, launched from Lebanon, fall into sea in Acre, Israel on October 10, 2024 [Mostafa Alkharouf/Anadolu Agency]

Israel detected since early Friday the firing of some 70 rockets from Lebanon towards areas in northern Israel, according to local media.

The Israeli Haaretz daily cited a statement by the Israeli army that said 70 rockets were fired from Lebanon towards northern Israel since early morning.

The local Channel 12 said the rocket firing triggered the activation of the air-raid sirens in Acre, Kiryat Shmona, Metula and areas in the Upper Galilee.

The Israeli army said it intercepted some of the rockets while others landed in open areas, without mentioning if there were casualties caused by the rockets.

Hezbollah, for its part, announced on Friday several attacks against Israeli army’s sites and soldiers, including two attacks against groups of Israeli soldiers in the Shomera and Ya’ra settlements.

Israel has mounted massive air strikes across Lebanon against what it claims Hezbollah targets since 23 September, killing more than 1,351 people, injuring 3,800 others, and displacing more than 1.2 million people.

The aerial campaign was an escalation in a year-long cross-border warfare between Israel and Hezbollah since the start of Tel Aviv’s brutal offensive on the Gaza Strip that has killed nearly 42,000 people, mostly women and children, since a Hamas attack last year.

At least 2,083 people have since been killed and 9,869 others injured in Israeli attacks in Lebanon, according to Lebanese authorities.

Despite international warnings that the Middle East region was on the brink of a regional war amid Israel’s relentless attacks on Gaza and Lebanon, Tel Aviv expanded the conflict by launching, on 1 October, a ground invasion into southern Lebanon.

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