Firefighters douse flames in a field after a drone launched from southern Lebanon fell near Senir Kibbutz in the Upper Galilee in northern Israel on Sept. 16, 2024.Photo by JALAA MAREY/AFP via Getty Images

Several hurt as Hezbollah fires 100 rockets deep into north Israel

IDF striking terror sites in Lebanon following the waves of attacks on Israeli communities

by · National Post

Several people were hurt when Hezbollah launched more than 100 rockets and drones at northern Israel in waves of attacks overnight Saturday and Sunday morning.

Rockets hit the Haifa bayside suburb of Kiryat Bialik and Moreshet, a community in the Lower Galilee, the military said. The IDF’s aerial defense array intercepted some of the projectiles.

The Israel Fire and Rescue Services was operating to put out numerous blazes ignited in the area.

Three people suffered shrapnel wounds when Hezbollah rockets hit several homes in Kiryat Bialik.

The Magen David Adom emergency service medics and paramedics treated and evacuated a 76-year-old man to Haifa’s Rambam Medical Center in moderate condition with a shrapnel wound to the eye, as well as a 70-year-old man and a 16-year-old girl in mild condition with shrapnel wounds.

Maj. Gen. Rafi Milo, head of the IDF Home Front Command, toured the site of the Hezbollah strike in Kiryat Bialik. In addition to the civil protection, medical and firefighting services, Israel Police and the local authority participated in searches of the area.

According to the IDF, 85 rockets were detected following air-raid sirens that sounded between 6:24 and 6:32 a.m. and between 6:52 and 7 a.m. Before that, sirens sounded in the Jezreel Valley at 4:48 and 5:10 a.m., with 20 rockets detected crossing from Lebanon into Israel.