Hezbollah fires 50 rockets at Golan, wounding one

A man was moderately wounded by a 50-rocket barrage launched from Lebanon by Hezbollah at Katzrin in the Golan Heights on Wednesday morning.

The Magen David Adom emergency rescue services said that the man in his 30s suffered shrapnel wounds from a direct rocket impact on his home. He was being evacuated to Ziv Hospital in Safed for treatment.

The Israel Defense Forces said that some of the 50 projectiles that crossed into Israeli territory were intercepted by the Iron Dome aerial defense system, while several impacts were identified in the area of Katzrin.

Seven fire and rescue crews were working to put out fires sparked by the impacts, while police searched for any other potential casualties.

Iran’s Lebanese terror proxy took responsibility for the salvo, claiming in a statement that it had targeted a military base near Katzrin with unguided Katyusha rockets. It said that the attack was in response to an IDF strike deep in eastern Lebanon on Tuesday night.

“There is a great miracle here that no one was seriously injured,” Golan Regional Council head Uri Kellner told Ynet.

“There are quite a few victims of anxiety. At the site of destruction, as I see before my eyes, it is very lucky [no one else was hurt]. The government is responsible for this. It must stop these incidents and restore security to the residents,” he said.

He also called for a “sharp directive to the IDF to move the war across the border. There is a cruel enemy here sent from Iran and trying to destroy us … The government should respect the residents of the Golan.”

The IDF said on Wednesday morning that overnight, Israeli Air Force fighter jets struck several Hezbollah weapons storage facilities in the area of Beqaa, adding that after the strikes there were secondary explosions which indicated the presence of large amounts of weapons in the facilities that were hit.

Additionally, the strikes targeted a compound used by Hezbollah’s aerial defense system and that posed a threat to the IAF.

“The Hezbollah terrorist organization operates from within civilian infrastructure, brutally exploiting the Lebanese civilian population. The IDF will continue to operate against terrorist organizations in defense of the State of Israel and its troops,” the IDF said.

The military also said that following a missile attack in the area of Ya’ara on Tuesday, the IAF had struck the Hezbollah launcher from which the projectiles were fired.

In addition, the IAF struck a Hezbollah terrorist in the area of Wadi Hamoul and another Hezbollah terrorist in the area of Beit Lif in Southern Lebanon.

The IAF also struck Hezbollah “military” structures in the areas of Ayta ash Shab, Ramia and Tallouseh in Southern Lebanon.

On Tuesday morning, Hezbollah launched a 55-rocket barrage at the Upper Galilee and Golan Heights, followed by a 20-rocket barrage in the afternoon.

Both salvos came after the IDF attacked a Hezbollah weapons depot deep inside Lebanese territory on Monday and eliminated a key member of the Iranian terror proxy’s missile unit in a drone strike.