An Israeli of about 20 was seriously injured on Thursday morning after Hezbollah launched a massive barrage of over 200 rockets and suicide drones at northern Israel.
There are currently no further details about the injury, an indication that it was a soldier and the information has not been cleared for release by the military censor.
The barrage was in retaliation for the IDF’s assassination of a senior Hezbollah commander in southern Lebanon on Wednesday.
Multiple sirens blared in the north, including in the cities of Akko and Nahariya, starting at about 10 a.m. and continued for over an hour and a half. Hezbollah later took responsibility for the attack, claiming that it targeted five IDF bases with over 200 rockets and 20 explosive drones, a number confirmed later by the IDF. Many of the rockets and drones were downed by air defense systems and many others landed in open areas.
Shrapnel from an interceptor missile hit the roof of a mall in Akko, sparking a fire. Three people at the scene were treated for shock.
Additionally, two people were lightly injured while running to shelters and were evacuated to the Galil Medical Center in Nahariya and Ziv Hospital in Tzfas.
Firefighting crews, with the assistance of teams from the Nature and Parks Authority, are fighting at least 10 major fires that broke out in Ramat HaGolan and the Upper Galil, with one fire blocking a highway.
The IDF carried out a wave of airstrikes in Lebanon in response to the attack.
(YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)
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The IDF has NO power against Hezbollah, it’s ONLY the Zchus HATORAH that the country is still standing!
DavidtheKanoi: The zchus of Torah didn’t stop 6 million Jews from going up the chimneys at Auschwitz, Treblinka and Bergen-Belsen. Yehoshua led an armed force into Canaan, it wasn’t handed to them. We need to fight and fight hard while having bitachon.
5TResident: the zchus of Torah didn’t stop 6 million Jews from going up the chimneys at Auschwitz, Treblinka and Bergen-Belsen, because there was no zchus hatorah at the time, because the Jewish people were leaving the Torah in unprecedented numbers for decades before the holocaust.
Thanks for proving our point.
DavidtheKanoi – As a devout supporter of Neturei Karta, I can assure you that not only are you no Kanoi, but you – along with the corrupt Agudah politicians – are disingenuous posturing hypocrites.
You cannot claim to be anti-Zionist and pay lip service to the Gedolims’ quotes against Zionism while simultaneously posturing as being right wing patriots are are helping the IDF with your Torah learning.
How long did you think that the Israeli public would be taken for a fool?
How could the “chareidi” media outlets claim in one article that the chareidi yeshivas are supporting Israel and learning for the zechus of the Israeli soldiers, and in the very next article they spit on Zionism with all sorts of nasty accusations about how they cut the payos off the Yemenites, how they built anti-religious kibbutzim that eat pigs and rabbits, that they let 800,000 Hungarian Jews be slaughtered by the Nazis instead of rescuing them in exchange for 10,000 trucks, etc.. (which may or may not be true, but that’s irrelevant)??
So get off your high horse Mr. Non-Kanoi and tell your corrupt “chareidi” cronies in the Knesset to stop whining about the Bagatz’s decision against the yeshiva world – they were asking for it!!