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Tuesday, December 26, 2023
From the Liveblog of
Tuesday, December 26, 2023
Hezbollah fires anti-tank missile at church in northern Israel, wounding civilian
Emanuel (Mannie) Fabian is The Times of Israel's military correspondent
File: Saint Mary's Church in Iqrit, northern Israel (Dr. Avishai Teicher / Wikipedia)
The Hezbollah terror group fired an anti-tank missile from Lebanon at a church in northern Israel, wounding a civilian.
In a statement, Hezbollah claims to have targeted an IDF position near the northern community of Shomera.
But Hebrew-language media reports say the target is actually a church in the nearby depopulated Palestinian Christian village of Iqrit.
A civilian man in his 80s guarding the church was moderately wounded in the attack, reports say.
According to the reports, another missile was fired at the area as troops and medical services worked to evacuate the wounded man.
There is no immediate comment from the IDF.
