Israeli man killed in his car during Hezbollah attack on northern Israel
Israeli man killed in his car during Hezbollah attack on northern Israel
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An Israeli man has been killed in a Hezbollah rocket attack on the northern Israeli city of Nahariya, according to Israel’s national emergency service.
It marks the second Israeli civilian casualty caused by Hezbollah fire since the start of the US-Israeli war with Iran.
A man in his 30s was pronounced dead, according to Israel’s emergency service Magen David Adom (MDA). He was killed while attempting to make his way to a shelter on his electric bicycle, emergency services said.
Another 14 people sustained shrapnel and blast injuries, including a man in his 50s who was left in a serious condition, MDA said.
Three sites are known to have been hit in the rocket barrage fired on the city by Hezbollah Thursday, the fire and rescue authority said. One suffered a hazardous materials incident with damage to gas infrastructure, another saw munitions fall in an open area, and in a third, vehicles caught fire in a parking area, according to the authority.
Images from the aftermath of the attack showed smoke billowing from a site of impact, while other footage showed emergency workers hosing down damaged vehicles.
Throughout the day on Thursday, Hezbollah fired dozens of rockets at northern Israeli communities, the majority of them intercepted by Israel’s air defenses or hitting open land.
Separately, eight people in central Israel sustained injuries from Iranian missiles on Thursday, according to MDA, including six in Kfar Qasim and two in Tel Aviv.
It comes after a 30-year-old woman was killed earlier this week by a Hezbollah rocket fired from Lebanon into northern Israel, according to authorities.
The latest round of fighting between Israel and Hezbollah erupted on March 2, two days into the US-Israeli war against Iran, with the Tehran-backed militia firing a barrage of rockets into Israel.
This post has been updated to reflect that the victim was on an electric bicycle when he was killed.