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SvennoJ on 04 July 2024
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Sirens in northern Israel after attack from Lebanon

Sirens have been sounded at least seven times within 20 minutes across towns and settlements in northern Israel after continuous shelling and drone attacks from Lebanon. Israeli civil defence service reported no injuries or damage so far.


Rockets fired from southern Lebanon are intercepted and destroyed midair by Israel’s Iron Dome air defence system


Israeli medics say two people injured in northern Israel

Israeli ambulance service Magen David Adom says two women were taken to hospital in northern Israel with light injuries following warning sirens over a rocket attack from Lebanon.

Hezbollah says it launched more than 200 missiles at several military sites in Israel in retaliation to an Israeli air raid on Wednesday which killed one of the group’s senior commanders.

It was one of the largest volley of rockets by the Iran-aligned group since the start of the war in Gaza, which came a day after Hezbollah launched scores of Katyusha and Falaq rockets with heavy warheads into northern Israel and the occupied Syrian Golan Heights.

The Israeli military said “numerous projectiles and suspicious aerial targets” had entered its territory from Lebanon, many of which it said were intercepted.


An escalation, but still within rules of engagement on Israel-Lebanon border

Hezbollah’s launch of a barrage of rockets is no doubt an escalation, but since October 7, what we have been witnessing along this border are sporadic escalations – two or three days of intense flare-ups of hostilities, followed by days of calm.

Both sides are still treading carefully despite the escalating rhetoric threatening a full-blown war. At this moment, both sides are still sending messages to each other.

Hezbollah retaliates to the killing of one of its senior commanders by firing rockets at Israeli military positions and Israel responds by targeting the group’s positions – we have seen this – still part of the unwritten rules of engagement.


Dozens of firefighting teams putting out fires in Upper Galilee, occupied Golan Heights


Firefighters work to extinguish a fire following an attack from Hezbollah, in an area in the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights

Israeli daily newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth reports that 10 fires have broken out in northern Israel after barrages of rockets were fired from Lebanon by Hezbollah. Video verified by Al Jazeera’s fact-checking unit shows the scenes of some of these fires:


Israeli army says it intercepted ‘aerial targets’ from Lebanon

The Israeli army says its air force successfully identified and intercepted “suspicious aerial targets” from Lebanon. As a result of the interceptions, the army said, fires broke out in several areas – firefighters were on the spot to put them out.

Israeli media showed a shopping centre’s roof on fire in northern Acre after shrapnel fell following Hezbollah’s barrage of rockets from southern Lebanon.


Hezbollah again targets Israeli army

Hezbollah says in a statement, it has targeted the “Bayad Blida site” with a Burkan missile. The group did not claim to have made a direct hit or to have caused casualties with this attack.


Hezbollah vows to attack ‘new sites’ in Israel after commander’s killing

Senior Hezbollah official Hashem Safieddine has threatened to attack new locations within Israel as part of the group’s response to the killing by Israel of its top commander Muhammad Nimah Nasser.

“The series of responses continues in succession, and this series will continue to target new sites that the enemy did not imagine would be hit,” Safieddine said, speaking at Nasser’s memorial.