“We’ve been fighting the fires for more than six hours after rockets were fired and under the constant threat of shelling,” said the head of the Upper Galilee fire department, Eli Mor, quoted by the Spanish news agency EFE, adding that there are at least 15 teams fighting the fires in the towns of Kiryat Shmona, Kfar Yuval, Beit Hillel, Malkiyeh, Dishon, Tzivon and Meron.
According to the Israeli army, most of the projectiles were intercepted. According to police reports, the shrapnel hit the area around the town of Kiryat Shmona, causing material damage but no injuries.
The attack has already been confirmed by the Lebanese Shiite group Hezbollah, which said it had fired “dozens” of rockets at the towns of Meron and Safsufa, in northern Israel, in response to a drone bombing outside a hospital in southern Lebanon, which killed one person and injured others.
To date, the Lebanese group has claimed a total of ten attacks against the Hebrew state.
The Lebanese-Israeli border is experiencing its most tense moment since 2006, with an intense exchange of fire since October, which has killed more than 430 people, mostly on the Lebanese side and in the ranks of Hezbollah, which has confirmed 295 casualties among its fighters, some of whom are in Syria.
In Israel, the conflict has killed 23 people: 13 soldiers and ten civilians.
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