An IDF soldier was killed and eight people were injured a little after 9 a.m. on Wednesday after Hezbollah launched a heavy barrage of rockets at northern Israel and several rockets fell in and near Tzfas.
There were direct rocket hits in the industrial area of southern Tzfas as well as on the IDF base in the northern part of the city.
The killed soldier was identified as 20-year-old Staff Sgt. Omer Sarah Benjo, of the 91st Division’s 869th Combat Intelligence Collection unit.
Additionally, the military said that a reservist of the Computer Service Directorate was seriously wounded, and several other soldiers were moderately and lightly hurt in the attack.
MDA paramedics administered emergency medical aid to eight victims, one in serious condition, one in moderate condition, and six in light condition, and evacuated them to Ziv Hospital. Later, MDA director Elin Bin announced that the body of a woman who was killed in a rocket fall was found in a building in northern Tzfas after paramedics carried out searches in the wake of the rocket hits. Her death was pronounced at the scene.
The seriously injured victim, a man in his 30s who was initially evacuated to Ziv, was airlifted to the trauma center at Rambam Hosptial in Haifa when it was discovered that rocket shrapnel had penetrated his skull and he required delicate neurosurgery.
The barrage on Wednesday morning was one of the heaviest since October 7th, with sirens sounding in many nearby areas, including Amukah and Meron, where an IDF air control facility is located. The facility has been targeted by Hezbollah several times in the past and sustained damage in at least two of the strikes.
A Saudi outlet reported that Hezbollah targeted the IDF Northern Command headquarters in Tzfas and the IDF airbase in Meron.
Some of the rockets were intercepted by the Iron Dome.
Some areas of Tzfas are experiencing power outages following the barrage on the city.
Tzfas Mayor Shuki Ohana told Channel 12 News: “There were no rocket hits within the city, the rockets fell on IDF bases surrounding Tzfas.” The injured victims were apparently IDF soldiers but no official notice has been published.
Earlier on Wednesday morning, Hezbollah launched two rockets at Har Dov. Both fell in an open area. IDF forces attacked the source of the fire.
On Tuesday, a mother and her teen son were seriously injured in Kiryat Shmona after Hezbollah launched an anti-tank missile at the city.
The video below shows how the missile hit Kiryat Shmona before a siren sounded:
(YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)
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ברוך דיין האמת – ה’ ירחם
Once again אם ה’ לא ישמור עיר שוא שקד שומר the IDF and Iron Dome totally powerless!
@dovidthekanoi
You comment with such glee as if the death of a Jewish girl is worth proving that Tzionim are evil. Nebach, you are a so filled with hatred for fellow Jews, who may be misguided, that you can’t take a moment to write Boruch Dayan HaEmes. Rather you spew your constant drum beat of sinas chinum.
The kanoi did say BDH”E. The rest of my comment still stands
Sarah S:
No, it doesn’t stand. You chose to imagine his “glee” and you totally invented that he feels “the death of a Jewish girl is worth proving that Tzionim are evil”.
Nebach, you are so filled with Zionism that you can’t restrain yourself from baselessly judging him liKaf chov, even as you see the simple truth in what he stated.
The death of any Jew is indeed a serious tragedy. However, exposing thousands of people to pritzus is no less tragic, and will certainly not bring rachamim to klall yisroel as we so desperately need. The picture which lacks tznius was not all necessary to bring out the point of the article. At least, it could have been cropped or edited as so many other pictures have been when necessary to hide the identities of soldiers and the like. These all too often breaches of tznius on YWN must finally be seriously addressed by the YWN administration.
Boruch Dayan Ho’Emes.
So so sad. Hashem Yerachem