A second rocket crash site in Safed was reported, with no casualties from that hit.
“There were strikes near the city, also in our area, there are injured. We are returning the educational institutions to normal. … I don’t think we need to talk about evacuation, we are on full alert,” Kan quoted Safed Mayor Shuki Ohana as saying.
The IDF confirmed that several launches were detected from Lebanon that crossed the border to the area of Moshav Netu’a as well as near Kibbutz Manara and an IDF base. The announcement did not mention Safed. The IDF said it was attacking the launch sites.
Channel 14 reported that Israel is “currently discussing the nature of the response following the serious incident in the north this morning.” Ynet reported that the IDF is preparing for a “significant response” in Lebanon and not only at the sources of shooting.
Two Israeli civilians were seriously wounded on Tuesday by a Hezbollah rocket attack on Kiryat Shmona, close to the border with Lebanon.
The victims, a 15-year-old boy, Idan Saada, and his 47-year-old mother, Heli Saada, from Elifelet, a moshav in northern Israel, were evacuated to Rambam Medical Center in Haifa where they remained in serious but stable condition on Wednesday, according to a municipality update.
They are intubated and in an induced coma. The hospital plans to attempt to remove the ventilators later on Wednesday.
Nearly 100,000 residents of northern Israel were displaced in the immediate aftermath of the October 7 Hamas massacre of some 1,200 people near the Gaza border amid fears that Hezbollah’s Radwan fighters could attempt a similar invasion from Lebanon.
Israel has said that while a diplomatic solution is preferable, a military confrontation with Hezbollah is on the table to return residents to their homes safely.
Paris has brought a proposal to Beirut that aims to prevent a full-scale war between Israel and Hezbollah over the Iranian terrorist proxy’s cross-border attacks from Lebanon.
Last week, French Foreign Minister Stéphane Séjourné delivered the draft document to top officials in the Lebanese capital including Prime Minister Najib Mikati, Reuters reported on Monday, citing four senior Lebanese and three French officials.
The proposal calls for Hezbollah’s elite Radwan forces to withdraw 6 miles from the Israeli border, where they have been carrying out daily attacks on Upper Galilee communities since the radical Shi’ite group joined the war in support of Hamas.
Hezbollah on Tuesday reiterated that it will not stop attacking across the border until the fighting in Gaza ends.
The IDF has struck more than 3,400 Hezbollah targets in Southern Lebanon since the Iranian terrorist proxy joined the war in support of Hamas.
Hezbollah fired more than 2,000 rockets at Israel between October 8 and January 9. Additionally, the group has launched dozens of anti-tank missiles and drones at Israeli territory.
The Hezbollah attacks have led to military and civilian deaths and widespread damage in the Upper Galilee.
