Rocket fire from Lebanon kills one in north Israel: Emergency unit

Jerusalem: sraeli first responders said rocket fire from Lebanon killed one person on Sunday close to Israel's northern border.

The death is the first Israeli fatality from fire from Lebanon since fighting started with Hezbollah on March 2.

The 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".

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"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.

"We conducted medical assessments, he had no signs of life, and we had to pronounce him dead."

The Israeli army had earlier announced it had detected "a launch from Lebanon toward a community along the northern border".

Conflict reignited in the area after Hezbollah began firing rockets at Israel in retaliation for US-Israeli strikes on Iran that killed supreme leader Ali Khamenei on February 28.

Israel has sent troops into Lebanon and carried out extensive airstrikes in the country, while Tehran-backed Hezbollah continues to fire rocket barrages across the border.