Israeli police say at least 19 people have been injured by a missile strike in the city of Tira, some 25 kilometers northeast of Tel Aviv, after the military reported three projectiles were fired from Lebanon into central Israel early Saturday.
The Israeli Foreign Ministry posted videos on social media showing fire and smoke spilling from a building and emergency responders at the site.
“This is the result of a direct hit of a Hezbollah rocket on a building in the Israeli Arab town of Tira, injuring 19 civilians,” the ministry said in the post, adding Israel will not rest until Hezbollah is dismantled.
The Israeli army said on the social media platform Telegram that it had intercepted some of the projectiles.
Israel airstrikes pounded Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley early Friday, killing at least 52 people, wounding 72 others, and sending families fleeing from their homes. Video from the scene showed some buildings in rubble as smoke rose above the skyline.
Israeli warplanes also destroyed dozens of buildings Friday in the southern Beirut suburb of Dahiyeh, but there were no reports of causalities.
Israel Defense Forces, or IDF, reported that seven people were killed in northern Israel by cross-border rocket attacks from Hezbollah.
In a statement posted to its X social media account, the IDF said during the night Thursday into Friday, its fighter jets “attacked with precise intelligence” sites for weapons production, as well as what it said were Hezbollah central headquarters and other “military infrastructures” in the Beirut area.
The IDF said its fighter jets also attacked overnight what it described as Hezbollah’s “southern front” headquarters throughout Nabatiyeh in southern Lebanon. They said warnings were given to the population in the area to mitigate the risk to civilians.
