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Rocket attack toward north Israel kills one, two others lightly wounded
Israeli media report that the man killed in Kiryat Shmona is Zahar Bashara, a Druze resident of Ein Qiniyye in the Golan Heights
Magen David Adom (MDA) paramedics reported a 25-year-old man was killed in Kiryat Shmona during the rocket barrage that was launched Wednesday morning from Lebanon toward northern Israel.
Paramedics rescued the man from the rubble of a building that was directly hit. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
Israeli media reported that the man killed was Zahar Bashara, a Druze resident from the Golan Heights village of Ein Qiniyye.
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"Immediately following the Red Alert sirens, we heard explosions. We searched the area and saw thick smoke rising from one of the factories. We immediately searched the vicinity, and a 30 year old worker was brought to us, conscious and uninjured. He told us that his friend was still trapped in the building," MDA paramedics described the incident.
"Large numbers of IDF, Police and Fire Department forces arrived at the scene, and following complex extrication, found a 25 year old (not a local resident) who was unconscious, with no pulse and not breathing, with a severe multi-system injury, and we had to pronounce him dead on scene. All other areas that we searched had no casualties," the paramedics concluded.
18 people have been killed by Hezbollah fire in northern Israel since the start of the war. 11 of the killed were IDF soldiers, and 7 more were civilians.
The terrorist organization Hezbollah took responsibility for over 30 rockets launched towards the northern Israel, across the Upper Galilee and Golan Heights, saying "We fired dozens of rockets at the settlement Kiryat Shmona and at Commando Brigade 769."
The terrorist organization said the barrage was in retaliation for an IDF strike in Lebanon late Tuesday in which seven terrorists were killed, including a central figure associated with the Hagama Islamia organization. The strike targeted a military building in the al-Habria area in southern Lebanon.
Overnight, the IDF also attacked north of the Baalbek region, deep in Lebanon, in response to the launchings from the country's territory towards the Meron area in Israel's upper Galilee region.