Israel reported the launch of rockets from Lebanon and a drone from Iraq on Sunday as regional tension continues to escalate over Tel Aviv’s ongoing war on the Gaza Strip.
Israeli Channel 7 said that 15 rockets were fired from Lebanon towards Acre and Haifa Bay in northern Israel.
The Israeli army said its forces intercepted a drone fired from the east, a term used by the military to describe attacks from Iraq.
Israeli media earlier reported that the drone had fallen in the city of Yavne, south of Tel Aviv.
There was no claim of responsibility for the attack.
The Lebanese group Hezbollah, for its part, confirmed that it targeted with rockets the Kiryat region in northern Haifa.
BEIRUT, LEBANON - NOVEMBER 17: Black smoke rises among the residential buildings following an Israeli airstrike on the Dahieh area in the south of Beirut, Lebanon on November 17, 2024. ( Houssam Shbaro - Anadolu Agency )
EDITORS NOTE: Graphic content / The bodies of victims recovered from the rubble of a building are covered with blankets as people continue their search, following an overnight Israeli strike that reportedly killed a local journalist and several others in Beit Lahya in the northern Gaza Strip on November 17, 2024. - Since October 6, the Israeli military has mounted a sweeping air and land assault on northern Gaza, initially focused on the Jabalia area, describing it as an operation aimed at preventing Hamas militants from regrouping. (Photo by AFP)
BEIT HANOUN, GAZA - NOVEMBER 16: A view of schoolyard filled with debris as Palestinians take refuge in the school, belonging to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), to escape from Israeli attacks in Beit Hanoun, Gaza on November 16, 2024. ( Mahmoud Issa - Anadolu Agency )
Smoke billows after Israeli bombardment in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip on May 6, 2024. (AFP Photo)
Regional tension has escalated because of Israel’s brutal offensive on the Gaza Strip, which has killed nearly 43,800 people, mostly women and children, since a Hamas attack last year.
The conflict has spread to Lebanon, with Israel launching deadly strikes across the country in an escalation from a year of cross-border warfare between Israel and Hezbollah since the start of the Gaza war.