JERUSALEM — A civilian was killed in northern Israel by a rocket attack from Lebanon on Tuesday, the Israeli military said, adding that it was firing artillery toward the source of the attack in southern Lebanon in response.
“Approximately 10 projectiles crossed from Lebanon into Israeli territory,” the Israeli military said in a statement, adding that the majority of the rockets were intercepted.
Israel’s Magen David Adom rescue service pronounced the civilian’s death, adding that he died of shrapnel wounds in the community of Kibbutz HaGoshrim.
Before the rocket attack, Israeli warplanes carried out airstrikes in southern Lebanon. According to the Israeli military, the jets targeted infrastructures belonging to Hezbollah. Hezbollah said in a statement that it “confronted” the Israeli jets and forced them back.
The regional council of the Upper Galilee instructed residents to stay indoors and to avoid gatherings and traveling on the roads, citing fear of further escalation.
The incident was the latest in an almost ten-month-long conflict between Israel and Hezbollah along the Israel-Lebanon border. Tensions have been further escalated since Saturday, following a rocket attack that killed 12 children in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights.
Israel claimed that the attack was carried out by Lebanese Hezbollah, while the Shiite group denied involvement in the incident.
xinhua