175 rockets fired from Lebanon towards northern Israel

JERUSALEM

A total of 175 rockets were fired from Lebanon towards areas in northern Israel since early morning, the Israeli media reported on Monday.

The latest barrage of 40 rockets was fired on Monday evening towards areas in Nahariya, Haifa, Acre and Krayot, northeast of Haifa, according to the Israeli Channel 12.

It added that one rocket hit a steel production plant near Acre, without causing casualties.

The Israeli media, however, didn't provide further details on how many rockets were intercepted or where did they land.

Early on Monday, Palestinian resistance group Hamas said it fired a volley of rockets at Tel Aviv on the first anniversary of Israel’s genocidal war on the Gaza Strip.

The Israeli army, for its part, confirmed that five projectiles were fired from Khan Younis in southern Gaza into central Israel.

Israel has mounted massive airstrikes across Lebanon against what it claims Hezbollah targets since Sept. 23, killing 1,251, injuring 3,618 others, and displacing more than 1.2 million people.

The aerial campaign was an escalation in yearlong cross-border warfare between Israel and Hezbollah since the start of Tel Aviv’s brutal offensive on the Gaza Strip that has killed nearly 42,000 people, mostly women and children, since a Hamas attack last year.

Despite international warnings that the Middle East region was on the brink of a regional war amid Israel’s relentless attacks on Gaza and Lebanon, Tel Aviv expanded the conflict by launching on Oct. 1 a ground invasion into southern Lebanon.

*Writing by Ahmed Asmar