A 60 year old man was seriously injured this Sunday in the Upper Galilee region, in northern Israel, reported the Israeli emergency service, Magen David Adom (MDA), after the launch of more than 180 rockets by Hezbollah terrorists from Lebanon.
”Following the incident in Upper Galilee, paramedics and emergency medical technicians are providing medical treatment and have evacuated a man, approximately 60 years old, in serious condition, with a shrapnel wound to the abdomen, to Ziv Hospital,” the MDA said. in a statement.
In Haifa, on Israel’s northern coast, a residential building was hit by the remains of a rocket that had been intercepted by Israel’s air defense system. Two people suffered minor injuries, and authorities evacuated residents due to the risk of the structure collapsing.
In Petah Tikva, in the center of the country, falling rocket debris left at least one person slightly injured and caused damage to several vehicles.
From around 5:00 a.m. (03:00 GMT), the air warning system issued constant and repeated signals, and residents in the northern and central regions of Israel were urged to take shelter in bunkers.
The Lebanese terrorist group reported a “complex operation” and that it fired “a barrage of missiles and a swarm of explosive drones” toward a military target in Tel Aviv. In a separate statement, he added that he launched “explosive drones” against a naval base in ASHDODin southern Israel. He later indicated in a new statement that he launched missiles towards the main Israeli military intelligence base, Gliloton the outskirts of Tel Aviv.
Hezbollah fighters launched “a missile barrage” towards the Glilot base, from the unit military intelligence 8200the pro-Iran group said in a statement. At first, Israel indicated that it had intercepted five projectiles out of six in the areas of And, Sharon y Menashe. The sixth fell in an uninhabited area. Later, he reported firing about 55 projectiles towards the north of the country, of which he intercepted several of them, he stated.
The head of diplomacy of the European Union, Joseph Borrellhe asked on Sunday during a visit to Beirut an “immediate ceasefire” between Israel and the Lebanese Hezbollah movement.
Israel and Hezbollah have been at open war since late September, when the Israeli army launched a bombing campaign against pro-Iran militia strongholds and ground operations in southern Lebanon, after almost a year of cross-border hostilities.
“We only see one possible path: an immediate ceasefire and the full application of the UN Security Council resolution 1701“, which ended the war between Israel and Hezbollah in 2006, declared Borrell after meeting with the president of the Lebanese Parliament, Nabih Berri.
Resolution 1701 also established that Lebanese troops and the UN peacekeeping force should be the only armed forces in the south of the country, one of Hezbollah’s strongholds. He also urged Israel to withdraw its troops from Lebanon.
USA presented to the authorities a 13-point plan that provides for a ceasefire in 60 days and the deployment of the army in the south of Lebanon. The American special envoy, Amos Hochsteintraveled to Lebanon and Israel earlier this week to try to obtain a truce between the belligerents, and spoke of “new progress” in the talks.
(With information from AFP and EFE)
