Seven killed in Israel in deadliest Hezbollah rocket strikes in months

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Two separate Hezbollah rocket attacks have killed seven people in northern Israel, authorities say - the deadliest such strikes in months.

An Israeli farmer and four foreign agricultural workers were killed when rockets landed near Metula, a town on the border with Lebanon, Foreign Minister Israel Katz said.Later, a woman in her 60s and a man around 30 were killed near Kibbutz Afek, on the outskirts of the coastal city of Haifa, according to paramedics.

Hezbollah said it had fired barrages of rockets towards the Krayot area north of Haifa and at Israeli forces south of the Lebanese town of Khiam, which is across the border from Metula. The Israeli military identified two projectiles crossing from Lebanon and falling in an open area near Metula on Thursday morning.

In the afternoon, it said about 55 projectiles were fired towards the Central Galilee, Upper Galilee and Western Galilee regions. Some of the projectiles were intercepted and others fell in open areas, it added.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ce8yjr3zyz8o

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