War in the Middle East
Dead and injured in Israel from rockets from Lebanon
Updated on November 18, 2024 – 7:58 p.mReading time: 1 min.
Every day, Israel’s army reports from Lebanon of destroyed Hezbollah weapons depots and bombed rocket launch pads. But they still fly on to Israel.
A woman was killed when a rocket from the pro-Iranian Hezbollah militia hit the northern Israeli town of Shefaram. According to the rescue service, ten other people were slightly injured in the town, which is predominantly inhabited by Arab Israelis. Earlier in the day, two people were injured by rockets elsewhere in the north of the country.
According to the Israeli army, more than 100 rockets were fired from Lebanon into Israel by evening. Hezbollah confirmed the attacks. It has been shelling Israel for more than a year – according to its own statements, in support of Hamas, which carried out a massacre with 1,200 deaths in Israel on October 7, 2023, thereby triggering the war.
Around 60,000 people in northern Israel have left their homes because of the shelling. Since the start of the war, 77 people have been killed and more than 640 injured there. More than 3,000 people died in Lebanon as a result of Israel’s counterattacks.
