Residents of Kiryat Shmona began evacuating their homes Wednesday afternoon, just hours before another round of rocket fire was aimed at the northern Israeli border town.
The residents had been warned earlier in the day to stay near their bomb shelters in light of the ongoing clashes between IDF fighters and Iranian-backed Hezbollah terrorists along Israel’s northern border.
Nine rockets fired from Lebanon at northern Israel, with four having been intercepted by the Iron Dome aerial defense system.
A Red Alert incoming rocket siren activated in Kiryat Shmona at around 5:30 pm Wednesday afternoon, in addition to sounding in the nearby border town of Ghajar, on Mount Dov.
Smoke was also seen in the northernmost Israeli border town of Metula, where anti-tank missile fire was aimed at a home in the town about 20 minutes earlier. No casualties were reported.
Anti-tank guided missile (ATGM) fire was also aimed at towns from Manara to Rosh Hanikra.
Residents were ordered to lock themselves into their homes and close their windows due to anti-tank missile fire from across the border.
The IDF said it carried out a drone strike against a Lebanese terror cell that was launching mortar shells at the Tel Turmus area, close to Mount Dov.
IDF tanks also fired at two positions in Lebanese territory where the anti-tank missile fire originated, in addition to attacking a separate position from which the anti-tank missile fire was aimed at Metula.
Armed clashes between IDF fighters and Iranian-backed Hezbollah terrorists were taking place for much of the day as the situation along the northern border with Lebanon continues to heat up.
Hezbollah has released footage of its snipers taking out IDF CCTV surveillance cameras along the Israel-Lebanon border — a tactic used by Hamas terrorists on October 7 at the start of its barbaric invasion into Jewish villages along the Gaza border.
The IDF maintains that the elimination of its CCTV surveillance cameras along the Lebanese border has nevertheless done no damage to its intelligence coverage in the area.
