The Israeli military intercepted a missile fired from Lebanon over a street in the city of Ramat Gan on Monday, injuring at least five persons with falling shrapnel, according to authorities.
Israel’s Magen David Adom ambulance service posted on X that emergency medical workers were treating a 54-year-old lady who was “in serious condition.” Three people with minor injuries and another patient in moderate condition were sent to Rabin Medical Center, according to the agency.
In the city, which is in the Tel Aviv area, Israel’s police force reported that it was “working to secure the impact sites and assist in evacuating the injured.”
The Israeli military stated in a statement that the country’s air force had “intercepted one projectile that was identified crossing from Lebanon into Israeli territory. There was a fall in the vicinity, which was probably caused by shrapnel from the interceptor.
A lady was murdered “after a rocket directly hit a residential building” in the northern Israeli city of Shfaram, according to Rami Swaid, an EMT with the volunteer rescue organization United Hatzalah, hours earlier. “In addition, we helped more than 20 building residents in different conditions on the scene,” he stated.
The latest events follow a week-long increase in Israel’s shelling in and around the capital of Lebanon.
Lebanon’s health ministry reported Monday that an Israeli airstrike on the heavily populated Zuqaq al-Blat district in downtown Beirut killed five persons and injured another twenty-four.
Since late September, Israel has inflicted Hezbollah severe blows, moving forces into southern Lebanon, executing its leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, and bombarding large swaths of Lebanon with aircraft.
After over a year of cross-border fighting with Hezbollah, the nation began its onslaught. Its stated objective is to destroy Hezbollah’s capabilities in order to ensure the return of tens of thousands of Israelis who fled the north after Hezbollah fired missiles.
According to Lebanese officials, the Israeli campaign has killed 3,481 individuals in Lebanon since hostilities started, the majority since late September. The numbers do not differentiate between civilians and fighters.
In the past eight weeks, more than a million people have been forced to flee their homes in Lebanon.
According to Israeli data, Hezbollah strikes in northern Israel and the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights have killed 43 civilians, while strikes in northern Israel and the Golan Heights and fighting in southern Lebanon have killed 73 troops.
The terrorist organization said that the day after the terror assaults on Israel on October 7, in which over 1,200 people were killed and approximately 250 hostages were taken by Palestinian militants, it started launching rockets in solidarity with the Palestinians and its fellow Iran-backed ally, Hamas. Although a third of them are thought to have perished, some 100 individuals are still in captivity.
More than 43,000 Palestinians have died as a result of Israel’s onslaught in Gaza since then, according to local health experts.
At a G20 conference on Monday, President Joe Biden told world leaders that his soon-to-be-defunct administration will continue to put pressure on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s administration over how it is conducting the conflict and the necessity of ending it.
He declared, “We will continue to work toward a cease-fire agreement that guarantees Israel’s security, brings hostages home, and puts an end to the suffering of the Palestinian people and children.”
“I am asking everyone to increase the pressure on Hamas,” Biden added, noting that Hamas was still resisting a deal.
