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Hezbollah claimed responsibility Sunday for a deadly rocket attack on the northern Israeli border community of Misgav Am that killed one person and wounded another, the first Israeli fatality from fire from Lebanon since fighting resumed on March 2.
The Israeli army later clarified the projectile was a rocket fire and not an anti-tank guided missile, as initially reported.
The rocket fired from Lebanon struck the settlement of Misgav Am in northern Israel, igniting two vehicles.
ZAKA 360 emergency response unit said a person was pronounced dead after a strike on their vehicle. Local firefighters said flames had engulfed two vehicles after a "direct hit."
"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," Magen David Adom paramedics said.
"We conducted medical assessments; he had no signs of life, and we had to pronounce him dead," the paramedics added.
A second person was wounded after a second vehicle was set ablaze.
The Israeli army said it had detected "a launch from Lebanon toward a community along the northern border" shortly before the incident, adding that the attack caused casualties and damage and that an investigation is ongoing.
Hezbollah said its fighters targeted "a gathering of Israeli enemy soldiers in the settlement of Misgav Am with a rocket barrage," in a statement, describing it as one of a series of attacks it claimed against Israeli troops in northern Israel and southern Lebanon on Sunday.
The death is the first Israeli fatality from fire from Lebanon since fighting resumed with Hezbollah on March 2.
Hezbollah stated it targeted a military site in northern Israel on that date in response to continued Israeli strikes on Lebanon despite a ceasefire in place since November 2024.
Israel launched renewed airstrikes the same day on Beirut's southern suburbs and areas in southern and eastern Lebanon and began a limited ground incursion in the south on March 3.
The death toll from Israeli attacks on Lebanon recently rose to 1,204, and 2,740 were injured.
The total death toll of over 1,000 includes 79 women and 118 children, while the wounded include 419 women and 370 children, the Lebanese Health Ministry said.
The conflict between Israel and Iran has expanded regionally to include Lebanon since March 2, following the launch of the sustained U.S.-Israeli offensive on Iran on Feb. 28 that has killed hundreds, including then-Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei.
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