Rocket fired from Lebanon injures 19 in central Israel

JERUSALEM, Nov. 2 (Xinhua) — A rocket fired from Lebanon on Saturday hit a building in the Arab-Israeli city of Tira in central Israel, injuring 19 people, four of them moderately and the rest lightly, Israel’s state-owned Kan TV News reported.
According to the TV channel, a drone launched from Lebanon on Saturday hit a factory located north of the city of Nahariya in northwestern Israel, with no casualties.
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) reported on Saturday that two additional rockets launched from Lebanon into central Israel were intercepted by the Israeli air defense system.
The IDF said it killed two Hezbollah commanders in the city of Tyre in southwestern Lebanon on Friday.
Mousa Izz al-Din, the commander of Hezbollah’s forces in the coastal sector, and Hassan Majid Daib, the Lebanese armed group’s artillery commander in the same region, were responsible for launching more than 400 projectiles into Israel over the past month, according to the IDF. ■