Two soldiers were injured in a heavy rocket attack in northern Israel

The Israeli occupation army announced that two soldiers were injured, one of them in a serious condition, as a result of a shell that fell in Misgav Am in the Upper Galilee, northern Israel, which was fired from Lebanon, and said Al Jazeera journalist that more than 50 missiles were fired from South Lebanon Near the Upper Galilee, northern Israel.

The Walla website reported that an Israeli soldier was seriously injured as a result of the attack on Galilee, and Israeli media also reported that two people were wounded in Margaliot and that a building was damaged as a result of the bombing.

Israel’s Channel 13 reported that an intense missile attack from Lebanon was aimed at the Upper Galilee, noting that dozens of missiles were launched, adding that a drone was also launched. Hezbollah Near the borders of Ramim Ridge, two people were injured.

An Al Jazeera journalist reported that sirens sounded in Safed and several cities and towns in the Upper Galilee, and Hezbollah also announced that it had bombed the Illit Hashahar colony for the first time with missiles. Katyusha in response to Israeli attacks, especially on the town of Al-Kafour.

Including missiles in the skies of the Upper Galilee launched by Hezbollah from southern Lebanon#video #Gaza_War pic.twitter.com/kenLvVTBX5

– Al Jazeera Palestine (@AJA_Palestine) August 17, 2024

Israeli Channel 12 reported that more than 10 fires started in open and agricultural fields as a result of Hezbollah missiles, and that fire crews were working to put out the fires and prevent them from spreading to buildings and nearby settlements.

The newspaper “Yedioth Ahronoth” reported that there was a power outage in areas of Safed after the fall of rockets, and a fire broke out in the Bereh Forest in the Upper Galilee due to the fall of fragments of an interceptor missile.

Israeli media reported a major warning about the northern border after the Israeli attack on Nabatieh in southern Lebanon earlier, and a request aimed at residents of the Upper Galilee to stay near shelters and protected areas.

In southern Lebanon, an Al Jazeera journalist reported that an Israeli attack targeted the town of Kafr Hamam and that an Israeli march targeted a motorcycle in the city of Tire The Lebanese Ministry of Health later said that the kill their rider.

Media coverage: A motorcycle was bombed by a residential drone in the Qadmus area near the city of Tire in southern Lebanon, recently. pic.twitter.com/SHTs32DQBy

– Quds News Network (@qudsn) August 17, 2024

Earlier, at least 10 people were killed – including two children – and others were injured in an Israeli attack on Wadi Al-Kfour in the Nabatieh region of southern Lebanon at dawn today. , Saturday, according to the Lebanese Ministry of Health.

The National News Agency reported that all those killed were Syrian citizens, noting that the final number will be announced after DNA testing is done to confirm their identity.

For its part, the Israeli army announced – in a statement – that its aircraft “attacked, in the hours last night, a Hezbollah military base in the Nabatieh region.”

The cross-border escalation continues as Israel anticipates an attack by Iran and Hezbollah in response to the assassination of the head of the political bureau of the Islamic Resistance Movement (temptation) Ismail Haniyeh During his visit to Tehran and the head of the Hezbollah army Fouad Shukr In an attack on the south bank of Beirut.