Hezbollah barraged Israel with rockets as the country marked its holiest day of the year Saturday, striking a retirement home in a suburb of Tel Aviv as well as other northern towns, but causing few casualties, according to reports.
The IDF intercepted dozens of drones fired from Lebanon throughout Saturday, during which Israel was largely shut down for Yom Kippur.
It was the first time since 1973 that Israel was at active war during the annual day of atonement, the Times of Israel reported.
Two people were lightly injured in a barrage of about 35 rockets near Acre, while a retirement home in Herzliya was struck, the outlet reported. No one was hurt.
While the Israel Defense Force fended off the rocket fire, the military ordered residents of 23 southern Lebanese villages to evacuate Saturday, while Palestinians in the northern Gaza Strip were also warned to leave their homes.
The Iran-backed group has supposedly been using nearby sites to conceal weapons and launch attacks on Israel, the Israel Defense Forces claimed.
Hezbollah denied hiding weapons among civilians.
Authorities in Lebanon reported 60 people were killed and 168 wounded over the last 24 hours, bringing the total toll over the year-long conflict between Israel and Hezbollah to 2,229 dead and 10,380 wounded.
Also on Saturday, the Israeli military renewed its orders for Palestinians in the northern Gaza Strip to abandon their homes and shelters as the IDF continued to face off against Hamas.
Most of the fighting in northern Gaza over the last week has been in Jabaliya, where residents claimed they were trapped inside their homes.
An Israeli airstrike on a Jabaliya refugee camp Friday killed at least 22 people, including women as children, according to Palestinian medical officials.
A different strike killed a mother and father and wounded their baby in another part of the city, which is less than 3 miles from Gaza City.
No food has entered the northern Gaza Strip since Oct. 1, according to the United Nation World Food Program.
“The north is basically cut off and we’re not able to operate there,” Antoine Renard, the WFP country director of Palestinian territories, said on Saturday.
With Post wires
