UPDATED:150 rockets fired from Lebanon into Israel
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Israeli public broadcaster Kan said on Friday around 150 rockets were fired from Lebanon across the border.
Israeli ambulance service said there were no immediate reports of casualties.
Lebanon’s Hezbollah announced on Friday they launched seven separate attacks on Israeli targets with Katyusha rockets
Israeli forces in tank and airstrikes across Gaza
Earlier, Israeli forces killed at least 14 Palestinians in tank and airstrikes on north and central areas of the Gaza Strip on Friday, medics said, as tanks advanced further into northwest Rafah near the border with Egypt.
The unrelenting fighting between the Israelis and Hamas militants in the territory carried on even as a parallel conflict in the Lebanon-Israel border area involving Hamas’s allies Hezbollah intensified, reports Reuters.
Meanwhile, according to reporting by Reuters, some Palestinians displaced by the Israeli assault on Gaza said they feared their temporary beachside camp would be inundated by high waves.
Palestinian health officials said shelling by Israeli tanks killed eight people and injured several others in the Nuseirat refugee camp in the central area of Gaza, and six others were killed in an airstrike on a house in Gaza City.
In the northern town of Beit Hanoun, an Israeli strike on a car killed and injured several Palestinians, medics said. Reuters reports that it was not clear how many of the casualties were combatants and how many were civilians.
In the southern city of Rafah, where the Israeli army has been operating since May, tanks advanced further to the north-west area backed by aircraft, residents said.
They also reported heavy fire and explosions echoing in the eastern areas of the city, where Israeli forces blew up several houses, according to residents and Hamas media.
“Our fighters are engaged in fierce gunbattles against Israeli fores, who advanced into Tanour neighbourhood in Rafah,” Hamas armed wing said in a statement, according to Reuters.
The Israeli military has said that forces operating in Rafah had in past weeks killed hundreds of Palestinian militants, located tunnels and explosives and destroyed military infrastructure.
