One man was killed and another injured in a Hezbollah rocket strike on the Upper Galilee on Wednesday morning. The dead man was identified as 25-year-old Zaher Bashara, a resident of the Druze village of Ein Kania. He is the 18th Israeli to die on the northern border since the start of the war.
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Bashara was trapped in the burning rubble of a building in Kiryat Shmona after a rocket fell in the local industrial zone. Hezbollah claimed responsibility for the attack.
A Magen David Adom (MDA) paramedic said they first extracted a 30-year old-man who was lightly hurt from the destruction and he alerted them to Bashara, who was trapped. “He was pulled out unconscious and suffering from systemic injuries and we had to pronounce him dead,” the paramedic said.
The barrage of some 30 rockets came after the IDF said a strike on South Lebanon overnight prevented a terror attack. Israel’s military carried out a targeted killing of a senior member of a Palestinian Sunni militia and six other members of the group in the village of Hebbariyeh in Southern Lebanon.
Hezbollah condemned the attack and vowed to retaliate.
“Fighter jets struck a landing area and several military structures inside a military compound used by Hezbollah’s aerial unit in the area of Zboud, deep inside Lebanese territory,” the IDF Spokesperson’s Unit said in a statement, adding that “In the compound, a significant terrorist operative belonging to the ‘al-Jama’a al-Islamiyya’ organization who advanced attacks against Israeli territory was eliminated along with additional terrorists who were with him,” the IDF said in a statement.
Was this act of murder that was carried out by Hizbollah, within international law? Will the Democrats condemn this act? Will Antony Blinken shake his head? Will the UN draft a resolution condemning Hizbollah? An arab was killed here, you know.