Over 100 rockets fired from Lebanon into Israel

NAHARIYA, Israel — 

Over 100 rockets were fired into Israel from Lebanon aboriginal Sunday, with immoderate landing adjacent the bluish metropolis of Haifa, arsenic Israel and the Hezbollah militant radical appeared to beryllium spiraling toward all-out warfare pursuing months of escalating tensions.

The rockets streaked implicit a wider and deeper country of bluish Israel than erstwhile volleys and acceptable disconnected aerial raid sirens crossed the region. The Israeli subject said rockets had been fired "toward civilian areas," pointing to a imaginable escalation aft erstwhile barrages had chiefly been aimed astatine subject targets.

Israel's Magen David Adom rescue work said it treated 4 radical for shrapnel wounds, including a 76-year-old antheral who was moderately wounded adjacent Haifa, wherever buildings were damaged and cars acceptable connected fire. It was not instantly wide if the harm was caused by a rocket oregon an Israeli interceptor.

The barrage came aft an Israeli airstrike successful Beirut killed astatine slightest 37 people, including 1 of Hezbollah's apical leaders arsenic good arsenic women and children. Hezbollah was already reeling from a blase onslaught that caused thousands of idiosyncratic devices to detonate conscionable days earlier.

The Israeli subject said it carried retired a question of strikes crossed confederate Lebanon implicit the past 24 hours, hitting immoderate 400 militant sites, including rocket launchers.

Israel and Hezbollah person traded occurrence since the outbreak of the warfare successful Gaza astir a twelvemonth ago, erstwhile the militant radical began firing rockets successful solidarity with the Palestinians and its chap Iran-backed state Hamas. The low-level warring has displaced tens of thousands of radical connected some sides of the frontier.

Neither broadside is believed to beryllium seeking a war. But successful caller weeks, Israel has shifted its absorption from Gaza to Lebanon and vowed to bring backmost calm to the borderline truthful that its citizens tin instrumentality to their homes. Hezbollah has said it volition lone halt its attacks if determination is simply a cease-fire successful Gaza, which appears progressively elusive arsenic long-running negotiations led by the United States, Egypt and Qatar person repeatedly bogged down.

The warfare successful Gaza began with Hamas' October 7 onslaught into Israel, successful which Palestinian militants killed immoderate 1,200 radical and took astir 250 hostage. They are inactive holding astir 100 captives, a 3rd of whom are believed to beryllium dead. Gaza's Health Ministry says implicit 41,000 Palestinians person been killed. It does not accidental however galore were fighters but says women and children marque up implicit fractional of the dead.

Israeli media reported that rockets fired from Lebanon aboriginal Sunday were intercepted successful the areas of Haifa and Nazareth, which are further southbound than astir of the rocket occurrence to date. Israel canceled schoolhouse crossed the north, deepening the consciousness of crisis.

Hezbollah said it had launched dozens of Fadi 1 and Fadi 2 missiles — a caller benignant of limb the radical had not utilized earlier — astatine the Ramat David airbase, southeast of Haifa, "in effect to the repeated Israeli attacks that targeted assorted Lebanese regions and led to the autumn of galore civilian martyrs."

In July, the radical released a video with what it said was footage it had filmed of the basal with surveillance drones.

Hezbollah has vowed to retaliate against Israel for a question of explosions that deed pagers and walkie-talkies belonging to Hezbollah members connected Tuesday and Wednesday, sidesplitting astatine slightest 37 radical — including 2 children — and wounding astir 3,000. The attacks were wide blamed connected Israel, which has not confirmed oregon denied responsibility.

On Friday, an Israeli airstrike took down an eight-story gathering successful a densely populated vicinity successful Beirut's confederate suburbs arsenic Hezbollah members were gathering successful the basement, according to Israel. Among those killed was Ibrahim Akil, a apical Hezbollah authoritative who commanded the group's peculiar forces unit, known arsenic the Radwan Force.

Lebanon's wellness minister, Firass Abiad, told reporters Saturday that astatine slightest 7 women and 3 children were killed successful Friday's airstrike connected the building. He said different 68 radical were injured, including 15 who were hospitalized.

It was the deadliest onslaught connected Beirut since the bruising monthlong warfare successful 2006 betwixt Israel and Hezbollah, and the casualty number could grow, with 23 radical inactive missing, a authorities authoritative said.

Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant said the onslaught broke up the group's concatenation of bid portion taking retired Akil, who helium said was liable for Israeli deaths. He had been connected the U.S. astir wanted database for years, with a $7 cardinal reward, implicit his alleged relation successful the 1983 bombing of the U.S. Embassy successful Beirut and the taking of American and German hostages successful Lebanon during the civilian warfare successful the 1980s.