At least five people were injured in Haifa on Sunday after a Hezbollah missile attack, in what appeared to mark the first time the Iran-backed Lebanese militant group struck the northern Israeli city amid the conflict.
Hezbollah said in a statement that it launched the missiles at the Israeli military base in Carmel, while Israeli officials reported that rockets and shrapnel fell around the city.
Haifa’s Rambam Hospital said it was treating six people who were impacted by the attack. One person was “slightly to moderately injured” and four others were “slightly injured” from shrapnel, he said.
A sixth person was being treated for anxiety, he added.
Israel’s Magen David Adom emergency services said they treated two people at the scene — a 13-year-old boy with a head injury caused by shrapnel and a 22-year-old man who was struck by a window that fell due to the explosion.
According to police, debris and shrapnel were reported by police and bomb disposal experts in two main areas.
The Israel Defense Forces said earlier it spotted five projectiles fired toward the city and tried to intercept them, but several of the rockets fell.
Israeli officials say Hezbollah fired more than 100 rockets across the border on Sunday. Israel has continued its extensive bombing campaign in south Beirut and surrounding areas in Lebanon that has killed more than 1,400 people in the past two weeks, according to Lebanese officials.
This Monday (7), an Israeli soldier said that a soldier was killed during combat with Hezbollah on the border with Lebanon.
(With information from Tamar Michaelis, Kareem El Damanhoury and Jeremy Diamond of CNN ; with additional information from Reuters)
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