The Israeli army said that 40 rockets were fired from Lebanon in the past few hours towards Haifa, Tiberias and the occupied Golan Heights, and some of them were intercepted. In return, Israeli raids targeted several towns in southern, central and northern Lebanon, leaving dead and wounded among civilians.

The Lebanese Ministry of Health announced yesterday, Saturday, the killing of 15 people and the injury of dozens of others, in 3 Israeli raids that targeted Mount Lebanon Governorate in the center of the country and the town of Deir Bella in Batroun in the northern region.

While Al Jazeera's correspondent said that an Israeli fighter jet raided a residential building in the town of Barja in the Chouf Coast area in Mount Lebanon, destroying part of the building.

An Israeli fighter jet also raided a house in the town of Al-Maaysra in the Keserwan district in Mount Lebanon.

In the northern region of Lebanon, the town of Deir Bella in the Batroun district was subjected to an Israeli raid that led to the destruction of two houses and their leveling to the ground.

In the past hours, Israeli fighters launched simultaneous raids on several towns in the Baalbek region in eastern Lebanon, including the towns of Tamnin and Younin in the Bekaa region.

40 missiles

In contrast, the Israeli army said it had detected the launch of about 40 rockets towards Haifa Bay and the Upper Galilee and intercepted some of them.

Israeli media reported that about 30 rockets were launched from Lebanon towards the Upper Galilee, including two rocket salvos launched towards Acre and Haifa Bay.

Hezbollah announced that it had attacked the air defense base in Kiryat Eliezer, west of Haifa, and Ein Margaliot with a squadron of suicide drones, and hit the targets accurately.

He said that he bombed an explosives factory south of Haifa with a barrage of qualitative missiles, and the city of Tiberias with a missile salvo, and targeted gatherings of occupation forces in several locations in northern Israel and the occupied Syrian Golan.

Targeting soldiers

Hezbollah also announced that it had targeted a gathering of Israeli soldiers in the vicinity of Moqi al-Marj and Ramim with missiles, and that it had bombed an Israeli infantry force that had tried to infiltrate from the direction of the Ramiyah site with a guided missile, killing and wounding its members.

It is noteworthy that since September 23, Israel has expanded its aggression on the Gaza Strip to include Lebanon and the capital Beirut, by launching unprecedented air strikes. It also began a ground incursion into southern Lebanon, disregarding international warnings and UN resolutions.

These raids have resulted - until Saturday evening - in 1,437 deaths and 4,123 injuries, including a large number of women and children, and more than 1,340,000 displaced persons, according to official Lebanese data.

Hezbollah responds daily with missiles, drones and artillery shells targeting military sites and settlements, and while Israel announces some of its human and material losses, military censorship imposes a strict blackout on most of the losses, according to observers.