Hezbollah claims rocket that killed one Israeli as army demolishes houses

2026.03.22 15:20 Smoke rises from the Lebanese border town of Al Khayam, Lebanon, on Sunday. Photo: EPA-EFE Israel said rocket fire from Lebanon killed one person on Sunday as Hezbollah said it attacked soldiers in northern Israel, the first fatality there in fire from Lebanon since the latest war erupted. Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz said on Sunday that the army had been ordered to destroy more bridges over Lebanon’s Litani River that are allegedly being used by Hezbollah in the country’s south and to step up the demolition of houses. Lebanon was pulled into the Middle East war when Hezbollah began firing rockets into Israel on March 2 to avenge the killing of Iran’s supreme leader Ali Khamenei in Israeli-US attacks. Israel has sent troops into Lebanon and carried out extensive air strikes in the country, while Hezbollah continues to fire rocket barrages across the border. Israel’s ZAKA 360 emergency response unit said a person was pronounced dead after a strike on their vehicle “carried out by a rocket fired from Lebanon”. Local firefighters said flames had engulfed two vehicles after a “direct hit” in the northern Israeli kibbutz community of Misgav Am. “We arrived at the scene and saw two vehicles on fire. During the firefighters’ extinguishing operations, we identified a man in the driver’s seat,” paramedics from Israel’s Magen David Adom emergency medical service said. Iran-backed Hezbollah said in a statement that its fighters targeted “a gathering of Israeli enemy soldiers” in Misgav Am “with a rocket barrage”. Tents are set at a temporary encampment for displaced people, following an escalation between Hezbollah and Israel, amid the US-Israeli conflict with Iran, in Beirut, Lebanon, on Sunday 22. Photo: Reuters It was among a series of attacks the group claimed on Sunday, mainly against Israeli troops in northern Israel and in southern Lebanon, where Israeli soldiers have been carrying out ground incursions. Defence Minister Katz said in a statement

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