Israeli firefighters reported that the impact of a rocket against a building in the town of Shfaramin the north of Israel, It caused the death of a woman on Monday, while rescuers reported 10 minor injuries.
“Five fire crews were deployed to the scene and rescued a woman who was found dead in a building that suffered a direct hit,” local fire and rescue authority spokesman Uri Cohen said in a statement.
The Israeli Army detected at least the arrival of 60 shells launched between the morning and afternoon of this Monday, which he attributed to the Lebanese Shiite organization Hezbollah, and indicated that most of them were intercepted.
“At 3:00 p.m. (13GMT), approximately 60 projectiles fired by the Hezbollah terrorist organization “They crossed from Lebanon into Israel today,” the military said in a statement.
The Israeli Emergency Service, the Magen David Adom (MDA), reported that two women, aged 34 and 65, were injured by the remains of these devices after being intercepted by the Israeli air defense system.
In addition, The Army announced today the destruction of an arsenal of the Shiite organization and a tunnel in a mountainous area of southern Lebanon.
In the same statement he detailed that Hezbollah militants planned attacks against Israel from that location in southern Lebanon -whose name was not specified-.
Hezbollah’s attacks on Israel began after the Hamas incursion on October 7, which left more than a thousand dead on the border with Gaza, and triggered the war against the enclave, where more than 43,900 people have already died, mainly civilians, according to data from the Palestinian authorities.
This crossfire forced Israel to evacuate more than 60,000 residents from the border communities who have been living in apartments and hotels in other parts of the country for more than a year.
Since the beginning of the Israeli ground offensive in southern Lebanon, at the beginning of last October, the arrival of rockets and drones claimed by Hezbollah against border communities and also against other points further away from the dividing line, such as Haifa and even Tel Aviv, has increased.
More than a year of exchange of fire between Israel and Hezbollah around the border with Lebanon has killed almost 3,500 people in Lebanon, the majority since the Israeli Army intensified its bombing campaign against the neighboring country on the 23rd. of September.
The Israeli military estimates that about 2,500 were militants from the Shiite group.
On the Israeli side, 76 people have lost their lives in attacks launched from Lebanon, including 45 civilians (six of them foreigners).
Additionally, 42 soldiers have been killed in combat since the Israeli ground invasion of southern Lebanon began.
(With information from AFP and EFE)
