Northern Israeli towns ablaze after rockets fired from Lebanon
Israeli authorities announced today that several fires have broken out in the northern city of Kiryat Shmona and other nearby towns after rockets were fired from Lebanon by Hezbollah.
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"We have been fighting the fires for over six hours after the rockets were launched and under the constant threat of bombing," said the head of the Upper Galilee firefighters, Eli Mor, quoted by the Spanish news agency EFE, adding that there are at least 15 teams fighting the fires in the cities 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 city of Kiryat Shmona, causing material damage but no injuries.
The attack has already been confirmed by the Lebanese Shiite group Hezbollah, which said it fired "dozens" of rockets at the cities of Meron and Safsufa in northern Israel, in response to a drone bombing at the door of 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 Israeli-Lebanese border is experiencing its greatest moment of tension since 2006, with an intense exchange of fire since October, which has already killed more than 430 people, mostly on the Lebanese side and in the ranks of Hezbollah, which confirmed 295 casualties among its fighters, some of whom in Syria.
In Israel, the conflict has killed 23 people: 13 soldiers and ten civilians.
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