Hezbollah targets Safed and naval base near Haifa
Hezbollah said it targeted an Israeli naval base near north Israel's Haifa on Monday, a day after claiming a drone attack near the city that the Israeli military said killed four soldiers.
Hezbollah fighters launched "a rocket salvo" at the "Stella Maris" naval base near Haifa, the Lebanese group said in a statement, adding the attack was at the "service" of Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, the group's longtime leader who was killed in an Israeli strike on Beirut's southern suburbs last month.
The Israeli army said that approximately 90 projectiles were identified by the afternoon.
A 50-year-old woman was lightly injured and heavy damage was caused in a volley of 15 rockets on the northern town of Karmiel, the military and the Israeli rescue service said.
Hezbollah later launched a barrage of rockets at the north Israeli town of Safed.
Hezbollah fighters fired a "big rocket salvo" at Safed, the group said in a statement, adding it was "in defense of Lebanon" and in response to Israeli attacks on Lebanese "cities, villages and civilians".
The group also targeted Monday central Israel.
Hezbollah has fired more than 12,000 rockets, missiles and drones at Israel since the start of the hostilities one year ago. Most of the fire has been directed at the north of the country, but attacks have reached deeper into Israel and become more frequent since the conflict escalated in mid September.
On Sunday, a Hezbollah drone attack on a military base in the city of Binyamina killed four soldiers and wounded 61.
Source: Agence France Presse
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