Israel’s conflict with Hezbollah, now known as Operations Northern Arrows, continued overnight Monday and early Tuesday morning, with Hezbollah firing barrages of rockets and missiles at IDF bases and yishuvim in northern Israel.

Early Tuesday morning, Hezbollah fired rockets at the Haifa Bay area and the Galil. The IDF’s Homefront Command ordered schools closed in the Jezreel Valley and Carmel areas after previously shutting schools in Haifa and northward.

Overnight, Hezbollah fired at the Jezreel Valley and the Lower Galil. Sirens were heard in Afula, Migdal HeEmek, Nof HaGalil, the suburbs of Haifa, and Nahariya. Some of the projectiles were intercepted and others fell in open areas. Two rockets fired at Nahriya fell in the sea.

Shrapnel from interceptor missiles fell in Nazareth and the Jezreel Valley, including one weighing over 60 kilograms, damaging property. After police and bomb sappers examined the shrapnel, one was transferred to the office of Nof HaGalil Mayor Ronen Plot.

B’Chasdei Hashem, no one was directly injured in the attacks but MDA paramedics treated several people who were injured while running to shelters as well as several people who suffered from shock. MDA also reported that one of their ambulances in the Jezreel Valley was hit by shrapnel and damaged.

Hezbollah later claimed responsiblity for the overnight attacks, claiming that it fired Fadi 1 and 2 rockets at the Megiddo airport, the Ramat David airbase, and a military supplies factory.

Meanwhile, the Israeli Air Force continued their attacks on Lebanon overnight Monday. The IDF announced on Tuesday morning that it struck the launchers used to attack Afula in the Jezreel Valley, destroying them, as well as dozens of Hezbollah sites in southern Lebanon, including many weapon depots.

The IDF reported that in the past day, it targeted about 1,600 Hezbollah terror targets in southern Lebanon and the Bekaa Valley as well as carried out an attempted assassination of senior Hezbollah commander Ali Karaki.

On Monday, Israel announced a nationwide state of emergency.

(YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)