ANSWER: Israeli artillery responds to the Lebanese rocket attack on Friday. Photo: JALAA MAREY / AFP
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The Israeli government has been summoned to an emergency meeting after 19 rockets were fired at the northern part of the country. Hezbollah confirms that they are behind the rocket attacks, writes The Jerusalem Post.
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In recent days, there have been episodes where rockets have been fired into Israel from Lebanon, but it has been unclear who was behind these attacks.
Various Palestinian militant groups in southern Lebanon have been singled out, but the situation is quite different when the Lebanese militant movement Hezbollah now admits to firing rockets into Israel.
Most of the rockets sent from Lebanon on Friday morning were shot down and destroyed by the Israeli missile shield, the so-called Iron Dome system, which warns and shoots down incoming rockets.
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But six of the rockets are said to have crashed into open countryside outside the Israeli cities of Ein Qiniyye and Neve Atif, writes the Israeli newspaper Haaretz.
The cities are located in the Har Dove area, which on previous occasions has been hit by Hezbollah rockets.
The alarm went off and security procedures were followed in the northern part of Galilee and the Golan Heights on Friday morning. Residents were immediately ordered to seek refuge in bomb shelters and remain there until further notice, writes The Jerusalem Post.
The Israeli military (IDF), confirms the alarms on Twitter. There will be talk of more than ten rockets, he claims IDF.
According to the news agency Reuters has Israeli military radio confirmed by the IDF has responded with fire from artillery cannons.
No people have been injured as a result of the rocket fire, the Israeli emergency health service reports on Twitter.
According to Haaretz, the IDF, the Israeli military, has stated that they do not believe that Hezbollah wants to continue firing rockets at Israel.
On Friday, Defense Minister Benny Gantz met with the IDF’s top military, including Chief of Defense Lieutenant General Aviv Kochavi, where the dramatic situation and the threat from Hezbollah were discussed.
The rocket attacks from Lebanon and Israel’s retaliatory actions have so far cost no lives. The IDF spokesman told the Israeli press that a total of 19 rockets were fired from Lebanon. Three landed inside Lebanon, 16 rockets were sent across the border into Israel, ten of which were shot down by the Israeli missile shield, the Iron Dome system, Haaretz writes.
