TEL AVIV (AP) – Rocket fire from Lebanon killed five people in northern Israel yesterday, including four foreign workers, in the deadliest such attack since Israel’s invasion earlier this month.
The Hezbollah group has been firing rockets, drones and missiles into Israel, and drawing retaliatory strikes.
The conflict along the border escalated into a full-blown war last month, when Israel launched a wave of heavy airstrikes across Lebanon and killed Hezbollah’s top leader, Hassan Nasrallah, and most of his deputies. Israeli ground forces pushed into Lebanon at the start of October.
The Metula regional council reported yesterday’s attack, without detailing the number or type of projectiles used. The nationalities of the workers were also not immediately known.
Metula, Israel’s northernmost town which is surrounded by Lebanon on three sides, has suffered heavy damage from rockets. The town’s residents evacuated in October 2023, and only security officials and agricultural workers remain.
The attack came as senior United Sates (US) diplomats were in the region to push for ceasefires in Lebanon and Gaza, hoping to wind down the wars in the Middle East in the Biden administration’s final months. The mediators are circulating new proposals to wind down the regional conflict.
