Hezbollah rocket damages utility pole, causing blackouts in several northern towns
Lebanese terror group fires nighttime barrage of projectiles, some of which are intercepted by Iron Dome; IDF strikes Hezbollah sites after deadly anti-tank missile attack
Hezbollah fired a barrage of rockets at northern Israel on Monday night, resulting in damage that knocked out power in several towns, as the military struck targets in Lebanon following a deadly cross-border attack by the terror group earlier in the day.
According to the Israel Defense Forces, at least 10 rockets were fired from Lebanon at the Western Galilee.
Some of the projectiles were intercepted by the Iron Dome air defense system.
There were no reports of injuries.
The Mateh Asher Regional Council said one the rockets landed near an utility pole, causing damage that led to a blackout in a number of local communities.
A statement from the regional council said the Israel Electric Company was working to repair the damaged transmitter. It did not specify how many towns in the region lost power.
Footage shows Iron Dome interceptions over the Western Galilee https://t.co/V40cOvL4XW pic.twitter.com/UcYAqe551a
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Following the barrage, the IDF announced it carried out a series of strikes in response to the attack Monday morning, in which a foreign laborer was killed and seven were wounded after an anti-tank missile fired from Lebanon struck an orchard near Margaliot where they were working.
Sites hit by fighter jets in Bint Jbeil, Sultaniyeh, and Seddiqine included buildings used by Hezbollah and a command center, according to the IDF.
מטוסי קרב תקפו לפני זמן קצר שורת מטרות של ארגון הטרור חיזבאללה במרחבים בינת ג׳בל, א-סלטניה וצדיקין בתגובה לשיגורים לעבר מרחב מרגליות הבוקר. בין המטרות שהותקפו: מבנים צבאיים ומפקדה צבאית ששימשו את הארגון. pic.twitter.com/wskrHKKaWp
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A few hours before, the IDF said it it struck several buildings in southern Lebanon used by Hezbollah.
It added that sirens that sounded earlier in the Galilee panhandle were caused by a “suspicious aerial target” that entered Israeli airspace from Lebanon, and due to an interceptor missile fired at it.
Several projectiles were also fired at the Mount Dov area, with the IDF saying it is shelling the launch sites in south Lebanon.
Amid the strikes, Hezbollah declared the deaths of three members killed “on the road to Jerusalem,” its term for operatives slain in Israeli strikes.
They were named as Hussein Ibrahim, Ali Suwaidan, and Abbas Ahmad Hajej, all paramedics in the terror group’s Islamic Health Authority.
Their deaths bring the terror group’s toll to 232 since October 8, when Hezbollah-led forces began attacking Israeli communities and military posts along the border on a near-daily basis, which the group says it is doing so to support Gaza in wake of the devastating Hamas onslaught that sparked the ongoing war there.
Most of the Hezbollah members have been killed in Lebanon, but some also in Syria. In Lebanon, another 37 operatives from other terror groups, a Lebanese soldier, and at least 30 civilians, three of whom were journalists, have been killed.
The skirmishes on the border have resulted in seven civilian deaths on the Israeli side — including Monday’s incident — as well as the deaths of 10 IDF soldiers and reservists. There have also been several attacks from Syria, without any injuries.
