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4 Katyusha rockets fired from Lebanon at western Galilee | JPost | Israel News
Four rockets fired from southern Lebanon targeted northern Israel on Thursday afternoon, setting off air raid sirens in Acre, Nahariya, and additional areas in the Western Galilee and sending frightened local residents fleeing for cover.
IDF troops at the site of a rocket strike in the Western Galilee, August 22, 2013.
There were no injuries in the attack, Magen David Adom paramedics said.
The Iron Dome anti-rocket system intercepted one rocket between Acre and Nahairya while another rocket hit a built-up area in the nroth. The other projectiles failed to reach Israeli territory, IDF Spokesman Brig.-Gen. Yoav Mordechai said.
One interceptor missile from the Iron Dome fell in a northern kibbutz, causing some damage to a street.
Global jihad elements in Lebanon, not Hezbollah, fired the rockets, according to the army's initial assessments.
The rockets were fired just south of the Lebanese city of Tyre.
The IDF said that it holds the Lebanese government responsible for all activity that emanates from its territory.
The Home Front Command instructed residents of the north to proceed as normal, adding that no special safety instructions are in place. The message is part of the IDF's assessment that the rockets form an isolated incident, and do not mark the start of an escalation.
Two residents suffered shock and were taken to the Nahariya Hospital for the Western Galilee.
The IDF did not return fire.
"I heard a weak explosion, and then in parallel to the siren, I heard a stronger boom," Keinan Engel, a resident of the northern town of Nahariya, told Army Radio. "I went to take cover, in a reinforcedroom."
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Four rockets fired from southern Lebanon targeted northern Israel on Thursday afternoon, setting off air raid sirens in Acre, Nahariya, and additional areas in the Western Galilee and sending frightened local residents fleeing for cover.
IDF troops at the site of a rocket strike in the Western Galilee, August 22, 2013.
There were no injuries in the attack, Magen David Adom paramedics said.
The Iron Dome anti-rocket system intercepted one rocket between Acre and Nahairya while another rocket hit a built-up area in the nroth. The other projectiles failed to reach Israeli territory, IDF Spokesman Brig.-Gen. Yoav Mordechai said.
One interceptor missile from the Iron Dome fell in a northern kibbutz, causing some damage to a street.
Global jihad elements in Lebanon, not Hezbollah, fired the rockets, according to the army's initial assessments.
The rockets were fired just south of the Lebanese city of Tyre.
The IDF said that it holds the Lebanese government responsible for all activity that emanates from its territory.
The Home Front Command instructed residents of the north to proceed as normal, adding that no special safety instructions are in place. The message is part of the IDF's assessment that the rockets form an isolated incident, and do not mark the start of an escalation.
Two residents suffered shock and were taken to the Nahariya Hospital for the Western Galilee.
The IDF did not return fire.
"I heard a weak explosion, and then in parallel to the siren, I heard a stronger boom," Keinan Engel, a resident of the northern town of Nahariya, told Army Radio. "I went to take cover, in a reinforcedroom."
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