Rockets streaked across the skies over Israel on Thursday as tensions in the region boiled over following consecutive nights of violence at a Jerusalem mosque this week.
” after air raid sirens were triggered in northern Israel. Minutes later, sirens also went off in the Galilee region on the Lebanese border.
The rockets were fired hours after Iran-backed militant group Hezbollah, which is based in Lebanon, denounced Israel for violent raids on the Al-Aqsa mosque. Police and Palestinians clashed on Tuesday and Wednesday nights at Islam’s third holiest site. Dramatic footage circulating on social media appears to show several missiles flying overhead as explosions rumble in the distance. No official reports of casualties have yet been made, but Magen David Adom —Israel’s national emergency aid service—
a graphic picture appearing to show an injured person being treated in a stairwell explaining that MDA crews had responded to reports “of three injuries in rocket attacks across northern Israel in [the] Western Galilee region.”from MDA said the report involved a “male with shrapnel injuries,” along with one woman who was “injured while running to the shelter” and another woman who had “stress symptoms.
“MDA Alert level has been raised with EMTs and paramedics called in across the country,” the update added.that two rocket attacks were launched from southern Lebanon. Soon after, the sources say, a barrage of Israeli artillery fire hit southern Lebanon, though no casualties were immediately reported.
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