ALBAWABA - Two Israeli troops were hurt, one critically, by a southern Lebanon missile strike, escalating tensions. Israel's northern Galilee town Matzav was attacked.
Southern Lebanon fired about 50 rockets into northern Israel's Galilee, according to Al Jazeera's correspondent. Israeli news station "Walla" stated that one soldier was severely injured in the incident. Israeli media reported two more Margaliot casualties and building damage.
Israeli Channel 13 emphasized Lebanon's aggressive rocket bombardment on Galilee. Hezbollah launched many missiles and a drone near Ramim Ridge, wounding two civilians, according to the station.
Safed and other upper Galilee towns have sirens, according to Al Jazeera. In response to Israeli assaults on Kfour, Hezbollah launched Katyusha rockets against Eliat Hashahar.
Channel 12 Israel reported around ten Hezbollah rocket-caused fires in open and agricultural areas. The fires are being contained by firefighters to prevent them from spreading to surrounding houses and villages.
missile attacks caused power outages in Safed, while interceptor missile shrapnel started a fire in the upper Galilee's Be'er Sheva forest, according to Yedioth Ahronoth.
After the Israeli strike on Nabatieh in southern Lebanon, Israeli media reported increased northern border alert. Upper Galilee residents should stay near shelters and protected locations.
In Tyre, southern Lebanon, an Israeli drone attacked a motorbike, according to Al Jazeera.
An Israeli attack on Wadi Kfour near Nabatieh killed at least 10 persons, including two children, and injured others, according to the Lebanese Ministry of Health. The National News Agency said that all the victims were Syrians, awaiting DNA verification.
Israel stated that its planes attacked a Hezbollah weapons storage in Nabatieh overnight.
After Hamas Political Bureau Chief Ismail Haniyeh was assassinated in Tehran and Hezbollah military leader Fuad Shukr was killed in an airstrike on Beirut's southern suburbs, tensions and expectations of retaliation from Iran and Hezbollah rose.
