Hezbollah rockets kill reservist soldier in northern Israel
The Israeli military has confirmed that Major Itay Galea, a 38-year-old reservist, has been killed in the Hezbollah rocket barrage on northern Israel and Golan Heights that the group says was launched to avenge its assassinated commander, Muhammad Nimah Nasser.
Galea was a deputy company commander in the Yiftah Reserve Armoured Brigade’s Unit 8679. The Israeli military said that Galea was killed “fighting in the north”, although some reports had earlier indicated he was killed in the Golan Heights, the illegally occupied Syrian land that Israel has unilaterally annexed.
Hezbollah launched some 200 rockets and 20 drones at northern Israel in response to the killing of its third senior commander since the start of the war on Gaza.
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As tensions between Hezbollah and the Israeli army grow, there are fears the war may spill over the Lebanon-Israel border. In the southern Lebanese village of Qana, survivors recall earlier deadly Israeli attacks that took place in 1996 and 2006.
In 1996, 106 civilians were killed while seeking refuge in a UN peacekeepers compound, and another Israeli air strike in 2006 claimed the lives of 56 people, most of whom were children.
