Hezbollah rocket attack hurts at least 6 people in northern Israeli city of Haifa, hospital says
From Tamar Michaelis and Kareem El Damanhoury
Israeli rescue force members inspect the site where a projectile fell in Haifa, northern Israel, on Sunday.
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At least six people have been injured after Hezbollah fired a barrage of rockets into the city of Haifa in northern Israel late Sunday.
The Iran-backed militant group said in a statement that it had launched the rockets at Israel’s Carmel military base, while Israeli authorities reported rockets and shrapnel dropping around the city.
Haifa’s Rambam Hospital said it was treating six people who were injured in the barrage. It described one of them as “lightly to moderately injured” and four of them as “lightly injured” due to shrapnel. Another person was suffering anxiety, it said, adding that all the injured were conscious.
Israel’s Magen David Adom emergency services said separately that it had 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 hit by a window that fell due to the blast.
This appears to be the first time rockets have actually struck Haifa during the latest conflict between Israel and Hezbollah.
Debris and shrapnel have been reported by police and bomb disposal experts in two primary areas, according to the police.
The Israel Defense Forces said earlier that it had spotted five projectiles fired toward the city and tried to intercept them, but several of the rockets landed.
Israeli officials say Hezbollah
fired more than 100 rockets across the border Sunday. Israel continued with its
extensive bombing campaign on southern Beirut and surrounding areas in Lebanon, which has killed more than 1,400 people over the past two weeks, according to Lebanese authorities.
CNN’s Jeremy Diamond contributed to this report.
