Hezbollah attacks scorch nearly 2,500 acres of northern Israel
Firefighters were still working to contain the massive fires on Tuesday morning
Fires continued to blaze across Israel’s north on 4 June as a result of Hezbollah rockets and drones fired at the Galilee and Golan Heights over the past few days.
Israeli firefighting services said on Tuesday morning that most of the large fires were under control but that teams were still battling the flames.
The Israeli fire department said its firefighters were “working hard to protect communities and property,” adding that there was no threat to lives or infrastructure at the current time.
Over 30 firefighting teams were deployed to extinguish the flames. As a result of the fires, major roads in the Galilee remain shuttered.
The fire service also said nearly 990 acres of land were burned near Amiad.
Israel’s Ziv Medical Center said early Tuesday in the northern city of Safad said it treated six reserve soldiers and five settlers for injuries and smoke inhalation.
The fires burned across Mount Adir, Kfar Giladi, Kiryat Shmona, and other areas. The fire service said it was still working to contain flames in Keren Naftali, which had broken out the day before.
The city of Katzrin, known as the Israeli capital of the occupied Golan Heights, was also subjected to intense flames. New satellite imagery from the European Commission’s Sentinel-2 satellite showed a massive swathe of scorched land just south of Katzrin. Hezbollah had targeted the Katzrin area with a rocket barrage on 2 June.
On Monday, fires that initially broke out as a result of Hezbollah attacks over the weekend spread rapidly across the Israeli north. Hezbollah launched several more attacks on Monday and Tuesday.
Footage from Monday evening showed several areas in the north engulfed in flames and firefighters struggling to contain their spread.
Over 2,470 acres (over 10 square kilometers) of land have been scorched as a result of Hezbollah’s recent attacks, the Israel Nature and Parks Authority said on 3 June.