Sirens blared in dozens of cities in the Tel Aviv and Sharon areas, including Tel Aviv, Ramat HaSharon, Kfar Saba, Herzliya, and Ra’anana as well as in yishuvim in the Shomron after Hezbollah fired a rocket barrage at central Israel on Tuesday morning.

Residents heard the sounds of loud booms as several rockets fell. One of the rockets hit a highway near the Choreshim Interchange on Route 6, moderately injuring a bus driver in his 50s from shrapnel.

A 31-year-old driver of a private car was lightly injured after breaking suddenly and a police officer was lightly injured on the way to assist people at the scene. Several people also suffered from shock.

MDA paramedics said: “We arrived at the scene and saw signs of an impact on the road, with a bus pulled over to the side and its windows shattered from shrapnel. The bus driver, a 54-year-old man, was fully conscious and had shrapnel wounds on his head and chest. Shrapnel apparently penetrated the bus door. While we were carrying out rescue operations, we provided medical treatment to the driver, and after he was extricated, we transferred him to an MDA ambulance and transported him to the hospital in stable condition. MDA teams on-site are also treating several victims of shock. There were about 10 passengers on the bus, and the incident could have ended much more severely.”

Also, a rocket impact next to Route 444 caused a fire to break out:

Police officers and bomb sappers were quickly deployed to impact sites and searched for shrapnel remnants to remove any further risk to the public. Shrapnel was found in Ramat HaSharon and in several areas in Kfar Saba. B’Chasdei Hashem no injuries in these areas were reported.

Hezbollah later claimed responsibility for the attack, saying that they fired Fadi-4 missiles at the Glilot base near Herzliya, where the Mossad headquarters and IDF’s Unit 8200 are located. The IDF said that three to five rockets were fired and some were intercepted.

(YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)