10 injured as Hezbollah fires missiles into Israel

At least 10 persons have been wounded in rocket attacks by Hezbollah in the Israeli port city of Haifa, Diaspora Digital Media has been reliably informed.

It says one of the victims is listed in good-to-moderate condition, and the other four are lightly hurt.

All five were hit by shrapnel, according to the hospital. Rambam says none of them are in a life-threatening condition.

One more person was taken to the hospital for acute anxiety.

Footage earlier showed that a traffic circle in the northern coastal city was damaged by a direct rocket impact.

One person is listed in moderate-to-serious condition as a result of a rocket impact in the northern city of Tiberias following a barrage launched from Lebanon, the Magen David Adom ambulance service says.

Rocket sirens are sounding in Tiberias and other towns near the Sea of Galilee, amid an apparent attack from Lebanon.

The alarms appear to mark the first attack on the area since Thursday.

The IDF says it is investigating, after it failed to intercept a barrage of five rockets launched from Lebanon at Haifa this evening.

“Interception attempts were made,” the IDF says, adding that several rocket impacts were identified in the area.

“The incident is being investigated,” it says.

Footage from Haifa showed that a traffic circle in the northern coastal city was damaged by a direct rocket impact.

Separately, another 15 rockets were fired at the Kiryat Shmona area, some of which were intercepted by air defenses and others impacted the area, the military adds.

There have been no immediate reports of injuries in the attacks.

Meanwhile, flight restrictions have been lifted in Iran after ensuring safe conditions, state media reports, some six hours before rules grounding flights from airports around the country were due to expire.

The Civil Aviation Organization had earlier announced that flights would be called off from 9 p.m. to 6 a.m. local time, due to unspecified operational restrictions.

Footage posted online from Haifa appears to show heavy damage at a roundabout that was struck by a rocket.

It is unclear if there are more impact sites in the city, with videos showing smoke rising above apartments during the rocket barrage.

There are no confirmed reports of injuries.

Israel is obstructing search and rescue efforts in an area where senior Hezbollah leader Hashem Safieddine is thought to have been when Israel bombed Beirut’s southern suburbs on Thursday, a Hezbollah official says.

Safieddine is seen as a likely successor to former terror leader Hassan Nasrallah who was killed in an Israeli strike on Beirut’s southern suburbs, known as Dahiyeh, on September 27.

His fate remains unclear.

The senior Hezbollah political official, Mahmoud Qmati, also says he had no information on reports that the leader of Iran’s elite Quds Force Esmail Qaani has not been heard from since the strikes on Beirut late last week.

Israel should “let rescue teams do their work,” he tells Iraqi state television.

Qmati says Hezbollah is now being jointly led until it could pick a new leader, which would take time.

“What’s important is that joint command is in place,” he says.

“The method of choosing a replacement for the secretary-general takes time and requires appropriate circumstances, and for that reason we suffice today with temporary joint command,” he says.

Qmati says Nasrallah’s body remains in Lebanon and he will be laid to rest in Beirut’s southern suburbs, where Hezbollah holds heavy influence, when conditions allow.

Previous reports have suggested that Hezbollah fears a large funeral for Nasrallah could become a target for Israel warplanes.

After the IDF called on civilians to flee the area surrounding four Hezbollah sites in Beirut’s southern suburbs, Lebanese media outlets report airstrikes in the area.

One person was lightly wounded after a rocket struck Ma’alot-Tarshiha earlier today, and there were several other cases of damage caused by the Hezbollah attacks.

Medics say they are responding to reports of rocket impacts in Haifa after sirens sounded in the northern coastal city and nearby towns amid an attack from Lebanon.

No further details are immediately available.

Fresh sirens are sounding in Kiryat Shmona and nearby towns on the northern border.

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