Police said early Saturday that 19 people were wounded in a missile attack in Israel’s Sharon region, after the military said three shells were fired from Lebanon into central Israel.
Israeli police said all 19 people on board, four of whom were in fair condition, were taken to hospitals for treatment.
Israel’s Magen David Adom (MDA) emergency medical service said earlier that several people were injured in the attack on the central city of Tira, including “about 20 men wounded by shrapnel”.
Video posted on social media by the Israeli Foreign Ministry showed fire and smoke spreading from a building onto the street as emergency responders converged on the scene.
“This is the result of a direct hit by a Hezbollah rocket on a building in the Israeli Arab city of Tira, which injured 19 civilians,” the ministry said in the post.
It added, “We cannot and will not rest until Hezbollah is eliminated.”
The Israeli military said on Telegram that it had intercepted some of the three projectiles fired from Lebanon.
Tira, a predominantly Arab city, is located about 25 kilometers (15 mi) northeast of Tel Aviv, near the border with the occupied West Bank.
The war raging in the Gaza Strip has spread to Lebanon, where Israel is carrying out airstrikes against Hezbollah, an ally of the Palestinian group Hamas.
At least 63 people have been killed on the Israeli side since cross-border exchanges with Hezbollah began following Hamas’ deadly attack on Israel on October 7, 2023, according to Israeli data.
On Thursday, a rocket attack from Lebanon killed seven people in Metula in northern Israel, including four Thai farmers.
Hamas attacks on Israel in October resulted in 1,206 deaths, mostly civilians, according to an AFP tally of Israeli official figures.
Israel’s response has killed 43,259 Palestinians in Gaza, most of them civilians, according to figures from the Hamas-run territory’s health ministry that are considered reliable by the United Nations.
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