Several people were hurt when Hezbollah launched over 100 rockets and drones at northern Israel in multiple waves of attacks overnight Saturday and Sunday morning.
According to the Israel Defense Forces, rockets impacted Kiryat Bialik, near Haifa, and Moreshet, a community in the Lower Galilee. The IDF’s aerial defense array intercepted some of the projectiles.
The IDF said that Israel Fire and Rescue Services were operating to put out numerous blazes ignited in the area.
Three people suffered shrapnel wounds when Hezbollah rockets hit several homes in Kiryat Bialik.
Hezbollah’s terrorism targets civilians.
Hundreds of thousands of Israeli civilians spent their night hiding in bomb shelters, while barrages of rockets were flying over their heads, some hitting their homes, and rocket alert sirens were constantly sounding throughout the night.… pic.twitter.com/2XzgAQQ7Fp
— Israel Defense Forces (@IDF) September 22, 2024
The Magen David Adom emergency service said that its medics and paramedics treated and evacuated a 76-year-old man to Haifa’s Rambam Hospital in moderate condition with a shrapnel wound to the eye, a 70-year-old man and a 16-year-old girl in mild condition with shrapnel wounds.
According to the IDF, 85 rockets were detected following sirens that sounded between 6:24 and 6:32 a.m. local times and between 6:52 and 7 a.m. Before that, sirens sounded in the Jezreel Valley area at 4:48 and 5:10 a.m. local time, with 20 rockets detected crossing from Lebanon into Israeli territory.
Most of those rockets were intercepted, with the rest falling in open areas. No injuries were reported, according to the IDF.
The IDF said overnight at 1:48 a.m. that 10 projectiles were detected crossing from Lebanon into the Jezreel Valley area, with most intercepted and a fallen projectile identified in the area.
MDA said that at 1:20 a.m., it received a report about a 60-year-old man with a minor head injury, likely from a small interception fragment, near a village in the Lower Galilee. He was transported to the Scottish Hospital in Nazareth. Additionally, several people were lightly injured running to bomb shelters, including a month-old infant, two women in their 30s and men and women in their 70s and 80s. They were evacuated to the Emek Hospital in Afula and to the Holy Family (Italian) and English Hospitals in Nazareth.
In total, the IDF said that Hezbollah launched 115 “aerial threats” towards civilians in northern Israel in recent hours.
Hezbollah took responsibility for the overnight and morning waves of attacks, stating that it had sent “dozens of Fadi 1 and Fadi 2 missiles” at the Ramat David airbase southeast of Haifa and the Rafael Advanced Defense Systems north of Haifa. It was reportedly the first time since Oct. 8 when the terror group began attacking Israel in support of Hamas that it has used this type of weapon.
The Iranian-backed terror army said that the missiles launched were “in response to the repeated Israeli attacks that targeted various Lebanese regions and led to the fall of many civilian martyrs,” about last week’s series of communication device explosions that killed and wounded thousands of Hezbollah terrorists.
Hezbollah has vowed revenge for the deadly pager and walkie-talkie blasts last week across Lebanon, attributing the attacks to Jerusalem, which has denied culpability.
A targeted strike by the IDF in Beirut on Friday killed senior Hezbollah terrorist Ibrahim Aqil.
Following Hezbollah’s attack on northern Israel, the IDF said on Sunday morning that it was currently striking terror targets in Lebanon.
“The IDF defensive arrays are deployed in the area, and on high preparedness to thwart threats,” the military said, adding that “IDF strikes will continue and will intensify against the Hezbollah terrorist organization.”
Since Saturday afternoon, Israel has struck 290 targets in Southern Lebanon, including thousands of launcher barrels and additional terrorist infrastructure.
⭕️Approx. 180 Hezbollah targets and thousands of launcher barrels, ready for immediate use against Israeli civilians, were dismantled by a number of strikes in southern Lebanon.
The IDF will continue operating to dismantle and degrade Hezbollah’s capabilities and terrorist… pic.twitter.com/lWyQNoydII
— Israel Defense Forces (@IDF) September 21, 2024
In an additional series of strikes, the IDF said that it struck 110 Hezbollah terror targets, including launchers and terrorist infrastructure.
The IDF also announced changes to the Home Front Command defensive guidelines, which effect “the northern Golan Heights, the Confrontation Line, the southern Golan Heights, Upper Galilee, Central Galilee, Lower Galilee, the Haifa Bay and the Valleys (HaAmakim).”
The updated guidelines prohibit educational activities, limit work activities to those taking place near bomb shelters and limit gatherings and services to up to 10 people outdoors and up to 100 people indoors. Additionally, beaches are closed to the public.
The guidelines are in effect from Sunday at 6 a.m. until Monday at 6 p.m., with the possibility of an extension.
בהתאם להערכת המצב הוחלט בפיקוד העורף לעדכן את ההנחיות לציבור מיום ראשון, 22 בספטמבר 2024, בשעה 06:00 ועד ליום שני, 23 בספטמבר 2024, בשעה 18:00: ההנחיות המלאות מפורטות בקישור הבא: https://t.co/S1h1hksbPv pic.twitter.com/WUjeo5Me3L
— פיקוד העורף (@PikudHaoref1) September 22, 2024
