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Times Of Israel
Times Of Israel
24 Nov 2024


NextImg:Woman lightly wounded as Hezbollah fires rockets and drones at center, north

A barrage of Hezbollah rockets and drones was fired at Israel from Lebanon early Sunday morning, setting off sirens in the center and north of the country and lightly wounding a woman in northern Israel, according to medics.

The Israel Defense Forces said that at around 7:30 a.m., six rockets were fired toward central Israel from Lebanon. According to the military, five of the rockets were intercepted by aerial defenses and one struck an open area. The IDF added that there were no immediate reports of injuries or damage.

The rockets triggered sirens in cities and towns north of Tel Aviv, including Netanya and Herzliya.

A few minutes before the sirens sounded in central Israel, a number of rockets and drones were launched from Lebanon toward northern Israel, triggering sirens in the Galilee region.

The military said that two of the drones were intercepted and “additional interception attempts were made,” without specifying how many apparently crashed. The IDF said the incident ended with no immediate reports of injuries as a result of the drones.

Medics later said that a woman in her 50s was lightly injured by shrapnel following rocket fire on the Western Galilee. The rocket impact also caused damage in the northern town of Ma’alot-Tarshiha.

The IDF said that some 30 rockets were launched in the attack, some of which were intercepted by air defenses.

Israeli air defenses intercept rockets launched from Lebanon toward the area of Haifa in northern Israel early on November 23, 2024. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)

A few hours later, a barrage of another 25 rockets was fired from Lebanon at the Upper Galilee. According to the military, some of the rockets were intercepted and the rest struck open areas.

Late Saturday night, the IDF said that a drone launched from Lebanon was shot down by air defenses off the coast of Haifa, and that no sirens were activated as the drone did not get close to population centers, the IDF added.

The IDF also confirmed reports that it launched airstrikes against the Jusiyah Crossing on the Syrian-Lebanon border Saturday night, after it was being used by Hezbollah to transport weapons.

The crossing had been struck already once before by the IDF, last month. The military said fighter jets hit military infrastructure in the vicinity of the crossing, which it said were used by the Hezbollah terror organization to transfer weapons from Syria to Lebanon.

Israel has struck several other crossings between Lebanon and Syria in recent months, amid efforts by Iran to supply Hezbollah with weapons.

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On Saturday, Israeli airstrikes across Lebanon killed over 55 people, according to Lebanon’s health ministry, whose tolls do not distinguish between combatants and civilians.

One strike conducted without warning on a central Beirut building killed at least 20 people and wounded scores more, Lebanese officials said.

A Lebanese security source told AFP that the central Beirut strike had “targeted a leading Hezbollah figure,” but a Hezbollah lawmaker, Amin Sherri, denied to Lebanese media that any official was present at the time of the attack.

Rescue workers and people search for victims at the site of an Israeli airstrike that hit central Beirut, Lebanon, Saturday, Nov. 23, 2024. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

Israeli airstrikes also hit eastern Lebanon, killing 24 people ,including 13 in the town of Shmostar overlooking the Beqaa Valley, a Hezbollah stronghold.

In Lebanon’s south, at least 14 were killed including five in the coastal city of Tyre, the health ministry said.

Since October 8, 2023, Hezbollah-led forces have attacked Israeli communities and military posts along the border on a near-daily basis, with the group saying it is doing so to support Gaza amid the war there.

Some 60,000 residents were evacuated from northern towns on the Lebanon border shortly after Hamas’s October 7 onslaught, amid fears Hezbollah would carry out a similar attack, and increasing rocket fire by the terror group.

Hezbollah has since expanded its attacks to also target cities in central and northern Israel with rockets, in addition to the attacks on the border.

Israel stepped up its offensive on Hezbollah in Lebanon in late September, launching extensive strikes and operations that took out most of the group’s leadership, including its longtime leader Hassan Nasrallah.

Israel then launched a ground operation into southern Lebanon, with the aim of clearing Hezbollah strongholds in the area and making it safe for evacuated residents of northern Israel to return to their homes.

Smoke rises from the site of an Israeli airstrike on Burj al-Shamali, on the outskirts of Tyre, on November 22, 2024. (Kawnat Haju / AFP)

In recent days, heavy ground fighting between the IDF and Hezbollah has continued in southern Lebanon, with Israeli troops pushing farther from the border.

Still, in the past week Israeli and American officials have expressed guarded optimism about the possibility of securing a ceasefire, after US envoy Amos Hochstein made visits to both Beirut and Jerusalem to discuss terms. A senior Israeli defense official has said there is a high likelihood of a deal.

On Friday afternoon, Channel 12 published details on what it said were the remaining points of contention between Israel and Hezbollah, namely the formation of an international committee that will monitor a deal’s implementation, as well as a number of border demarcation disputes. The network said Israel was demanding language in the agreement that would allow it to unilaterally choose not to engage in negotiations over disputed points.

A senior official told the channel that “most of the details have been agreed upon, but what remains open is very sensitive and could still derail the agreement.”

Lebanese Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri (R) meets with US special envoy Amos Hochstein in Beirut on November 19, 2024. (AFP)

As of last month, the IDF estimated that over 12,400 rockets and drones have been fired at Israel from Lebanon during the war. The attacks on northern Israel since October 2023 have resulted in the deaths of 44 civilians.

In addition, 71 IDF soldiers and reservists have died in cross-border skirmishes and in the ground operation launched in southern Lebanon in late September.

Israeli attacks have killed at least 3,670 people and injured 15,413 in Lebanon since October 2023, Lebanon’s health ministry said on Saturday.

The IDF estimates that some 3,000 Hezbollah operatives have been killed in the conflict. Around 100 members of other terror groups, along with hundreds of civilians, have also been reported killed in Lebanon.