A short while ago, IDF artillery forces struck in Lebanese territory in response to the rockets fired from Lebanon at Israeli territory, an IDF statement said.
The strike is the IDF's third within two hours.
Earlier on Wednesday, Defense Minister Benny Gantz (Blue and White) conducted an assessment of the security situation, together with the IDF’s Chief of the General Staff Aviv Kochavi, the Director of the MoD Policy Bureau, the head of the Operations Directorate, and and the head of the IDF’s Intelligence Directorate.
At the meeting, Gantz instructed the officials to deliver a firm message to the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL), following the attack.
On Wednesday afternoon, just after 12:00p.m., air raid sirens sounded in Kiryat Shmona, Tel Hai, and Kfar Giladi, on Israel's northern border.
The IDF confirmed that three missiles had been launched towards Israel, with one falling short and landing in Lebanon. The other two missiles landed in Israeli territory. They were not intercepted by the Iron Dome missile defense system.
Though no one suffered physical injuries in the attack, several individuals suffered from shock: Both Magen David Adom (MDA) and United Hatzalah reported treating shock victims shortly after the missiles were launched.
IDF renews counterstrikes as blaze from Lebanon rocket engulfs northern hillside
The IDF renewed retaliatory strikes at military targets in Lebanon late Wednesday, in response to rocket fire, which sparked fires that were still tearing through forested hillsides in northern Israel some 12 hours later.
Israeli fighter jets targeted the Lebanese border areas from which the rocket fire originated in addition to other terror infrastructure, the army said. The air force also struck a site that was used to fire rockets at Israel in the past.
The Hezbollah-affilated al-Manar reported Israeli jets struck an area in the outskirts of the southern Lebanese town of Aishiya.
“IDF attacks will continue and even intensify in the face of terror attacks against the State of Israel and its citizens,” the army said in a statement.
The IDF said it held “the country of Lebanon” responsible for attacks originating from its sovereign territory, which took place as the government in Beirut undergoes its worst economic crisis in decades with the country on the brink of collapse.
On the Israeli side of the border, firefighters were still battling blazes sparked by two of three rockets fired from Lebanon shortly after noon on Wednesday. The third fell short of the border.
The Ramim Ridge west of the northern city of Kiryat Shmona was still awash in flames late that night, leading authorities to order the entrance to nearby Kibbutz Margaliot closed off.
A second blaze inside Kiryat Shmona was extinguished earlier in the day, but together the two fires already destroyed hundreds of acres of forest and scrubland, according to Hebrew media reports.
A spokesman for the Fire and Rescue service confirmed that the Ramim Ridge blaze was still going as of midnight.
A message sent to Kiryat Shmona residents by the city said the fire was not a threat to homes abutting the bottom of the hillside.
But a local official told Army Radio that officials feared the blaze could jump the fire line toward Kiryat Shmona.
“The fire is still not under control. It was very hard for us to reach in real time, and managed to spread,” said Benny Ben-Muvhar, head of the Mevo’ot Hermon Regional Council.
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