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Fri 01 Nov 2024 3:01 pm - Jerusalem Time

Rocket and shrapnel fall in Shaab: 11 injured, including children and a pregnant woman, while picking olives

Eleven people were injured when a rocket fired from Lebanon and interceptor shrapnel fell in the village of Shaab in the Galilee region, in the north of the country, on Friday.


Hayyan Intensive Care Center confirmed that it "provided treatment to eleven injuries in the village of Shaab, including five injuries to children and one injury to a pregnant woman, while the rest of the injuries were to adult men."


It stated in its statement that "most of the injuries were described as minor, with the exception of one injury to a man in his thirties, whose injury was described as moderate, and he was transferred to the intensive care unit at the Galilee Medical Center."


Before that, Hayyan reported that its crews were "providing treatment for several injuries from a missile that fell on the village of Shaab," noting that "one of the injuries is critical," before adding a short time later in a brief statement that there were "9 injuries in the village of Shaab, one of which is serious."


In another statement, the medical team said that "the serious injury is in stable condition," noting that "it has been treated, and the injury is now described as moderately stable, and she is being transferred to the intensive care unit at the Galilee Medical Center."


For its part, Hezbollah said in a statement: “In support of our steadfast Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip, in support of their valiant and honorable resistance, and in defense of Lebanon and its people, the Islamic Resistance fighters bombed the Karmiel settlement at 1:45 p.m. today, Friday, with a salvo of rockets.”


Mina Shafiq Hassoun, 60, and her son Karmi Raja Hassoun, 30, were killed, and a 71-year-old man was slightly injured, on Thursday, when rocket shrapnel fell on an olive grove near the city of Shefa-Amr.


6 Arab victims due to shells and rocket fragments


With the killing of the two victims from Shefa-Amr yesterday, Thursday, 4 others were killed as a result of interceptor missiles and falling shells and missile fragments launched from Lebanon since the beginning of the escalation and mutual shelling between Israel and Hezbollah.


On August 9, young Michael Samara from Kafr Yasif died of shrapnel wounds he sustained from an Israeli interceptor missile south of Nahariya.


On October 25, Hassan Ali Suwaed from the town of Ba’ana and Arjwan Abdul Halim Manaa from the town of Majd al-Krum were killed when rocket shrapnel fell on a commercial store in Majd al-Krum.


On October 29, a young man, Muhammad Yasser Qaytan Naim, from Tarshiha, was killed by a direct hit from a rocket and shrapnel while he was on his way to the shelter to take cover.

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Rocket and shrapnel fall in Shaab: 11 injured, including children and a pregnant woman, while picking olives