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Lebanon, September 22, 2024
Multiple Israelis wounded as Hezbollah fires 85 rockets at Israel; teen killed in crash during siren
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Some 85 rockets were launched by Hezbollah from Lebanon at the Haifa area in northern Israel on Sunday morning, following overnight launches at the Jezreel Valley, the terror group’s deepest rocket fire into Israel since the beginning of the war in October.
A teenager was killed when he crashed his vehicle as sirens sounded in the early hours of the morning, and at least three people were injured as a result of the rocket fire.
The military said that some of the rockets fired toward Haifa were intercepted, while others impacted Kiryat Bialik, a suburb of the northern coastal city, injuring three people.
The victims were a man in his 70s who was in moderate condition, and another man in his 70s and a 16-year-old girl who were lightly hurt. All three were taken to Haifa’s Rambam Medical Center for treatment.
One rocket hit a home in Moreshet in the Lower Galilee, causing significant damage but no injuries.
Sirens also sounded around the Sea of Galilee. There were no reports of injuries there...
A woman whose home sustained a direct hit in Kiryat Bialik said she “hates to think what might have happened” if she hadn’t been in her safe room during the impact.
“It’s a miracle,” Zehava Sofer told Channel 12.
Sofer said she could hear loud explosions from inside the safe room and that she stayed put until rescue workers arrived to extract her.
“Everything in the two upstairs rooms was burned,” she said. “The rest of the house I’m not sure, I haven’t checked yet.”
“We can’t live like this anymore. It’s enough. It’s just lucky I didn’t have little children at home,” she added.
In the early hours of Sunday morning, Hezbollah fired 24 rockets at the Jezreel Valley — the deepest rocket fire into northern Israel since October. According to the Israel Defense Forces, all of the rockets were intercepted by air defenses.
However, a 17-year-old was killed in a traffic accident near Ramat Yishai when the sirens sounded during one of the early morning barrages.
Police said that four other people in the vehicle were injured, including a seriously hurt 20-year-old.
Police were reported to believe the driver panicked when the sirens began, and lost control of the vehicle.
Large pieces of shrapnel fell in the Jezreel Valley following the interceptions, causing damage to a barn in one area and slightly wounding a man in another.
Hezbollah took responsibility for the barrage, claiming to have targeted the Israeli Air Force’s Ramat David Airbase, located some 50 kilometers from the Lebanon border, with dozens of rockets.
According to the Hezbollah-affiliated al-Mayadeen network, the rockets were fired from an underground “Imad” missile base.
The expanded range of the rocket attacks put some two million Israelis — a fifth of the population — in range of the strikes.
“Hundreds of thousands of people had to take refuge in bomb shelters” across northern Israel, military spokesman Lt. Col. Nadav Shoshani told AFP after the strikes overnight and early in the morning...
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