diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES
index 106ac27420..4b501acbd9 100644
--- a/CHANGES
+++ b/CHANGES
@@ -32,6 +32,7 @@ Bugs fixed
 * #10520: HTML Theme: Fix use of sidebar classes in ``agogo.css_t``.
 * #6679: HTML Theme: Fix inclusion of hidden toctrees in the agogo theme.
 * #10566: HTML Theme: Fix enable_search_shortcuts does not work
+* #10579: i18n: UnboundLocalError is raised on translating raw directive
 
 Testing
 --------
diff --git a/sphinx/transforms/i18n.py b/sphinx/transforms/i18n.py
index 65534727e5..160c7f35d2 100644
--- a/sphinx/transforms/i18n.py
+++ b/sphinx/transforms/i18n.py
@@ -238,6 +238,7 @@ def apply(self, **kwargs: Any) -> None:
                 continue  # skip if the node is already translated by phase1
 
             msgstr = catalog.gettext(msg)
+            noqa = False
 
             # See above.
             if not isinstance(node, LITERAL_TYPE_NODES):