Hezbollah says rockets fired at northern Israel targets overnight
Hezbollah said its fighters carried out four rocket attacks overnight on the “occupied city of Safed” in northern Israel as well as the Dalton, Dishon and Yiftah areas in the north.
In a post on social media, Hezbollah said a “large rocket barrage” was fired at Safad, and rockets were also fired at Israeli artillery position in two of the three other areas in the north that were targeted between 01:40am local time (10:40 pm GMT) and 03:40am (00:40 GMT).
Israel’s military said earlier that “about 50 launches” were detected crossing from Lebanon into northern Israel in the early hours of Wednesday morning. “Some” of the launches were intercepted by Israeli aerial defence systems while “crashes were detected in the region”, the military said.
The Israeli military did not report on casualties or damage to infrastructure resulting from the attacks.
Almost 340 Israeli artillery, air strikes in 36 hours on southern Lebanon
Artillery shelling from Israel continues and air strikes are also continuing throughout the day. The Israelis have suggested that they’ve hit 140 Hezbollah targets yesterday alone. That brings the total in the last 36 hours to nearly 340 individual artillery or air strikes in the southern Lebanese border area alone, a lot of them concentrated near to where we are right now.
The Israelis also say they’ve gone in and destroyed – on the ground – rocket launchers and Hezbollah infrastructure in those front-line villages on the border with northern Israel.
However, Hezbollah is saying that they are fighting back. They are fighting back on the ground and 24 hours ago they did say – and it hasn’t been confirmed – they said they managed to shoot down an Israeli drone.
Smoke rises following an Israeli attack on the town of Khiam in the Nabatieh governorate, southern Lebanon on Tuesday
Death toll from Israeli attack on Qana rises to 15
The death toll from an Israeli strike on the Lebanese southern town of Qana has risen to 15, Lebanon’s civil defence agency says. At least 15 others were wounded.
Qana, 10km (4.5 miles) southeast of the main city of Tyre, was the site of an Israeli artillery strike on a United Nations compound in 1996 that killed dozens of civilians.
Israeli navy attacks Hezbollah infrastructure
Israel’s naval forces have struck dozens of Hezbollah targets in southern Lebanon in coordination with troops on the ground, the military says.
Israeli military evacuation orders now affect more than one-quarter of Lebanon, according to the UN Refugee Agency, two weeks after Israel began incursions into the south of the country that it says are aimed at driving back Hezbollah.
Israel has turned up the heat on Hezbollah since it launched its offensive into Lebanon after killing Hezbollah leaders and commanders, including its secretary-general Hassan Nasrallah.
