Three wounded by Hezbollah anti-tank missile; 30 rockets fired at north on Sunday
IDF strikes targets in Lebanon; Defense Minister Gallant vows the north’s suffering ‘won’t be in vain’ as he visits Majdal Shams, where Hezbollah rocket killed 12 children in July
Emanuel (Mannie) Fabian is The Times of Israel's military correspondent
A Hezbollah anti-tank guided missile attack wounded three Israelis, including a civilian who was seriously hurt and a member of a northern border community’s local security team who was moderately injured, the military and a hospital said Sunday.
Following the targeting of Kfar Yuval, the civilian, a man in his 40s, was brought to Rambam Medical Center in Haifa by helicopter, after initially being taken to Ziv Medical Center in Safed.
Ziv Medical Center said the security team member and a third person injured in the attack were in good to moderate condition and were being treated at the hospital.
Meanwhile, 30 rockets were launched at Israel from Lebanon on Sunday, including a barrage of 10 rockets at the Misgav Am area and another 20 at Matat, according to the IDF.
There were no injuries in the rocket attacks.
The IDF also said that throughout the day it had struck Hezbollah rocket launchers in Ayta ash-Shab and Bint Jbeil, as well as buildings used by the terror group in Beit Lif, Taybeh and Odaisseh, among other infrastructure.
Hezbollah later announced the death of a member killed “on the road to Jerusalem,” its term for operatives slain in Israeli strikes, identifying him as Hussein Moussawi.
As the attacks from Hezbollah continued, Defense Minister Yoav Gallant vowed on Sunday that “the price we are paying in the north won’t be in vain” as he visited schools near the border with Lebanon on the first day of the school year.
At an elementary school in the northern Druze village of Majdal Shams, where 12 children were killed in a Hezbollah rocket attack on a soccer pitch in July, Gallant spoke with teachers and students who knew the victims, a statement by his office said.
“This is the place that took the hardest hit, and it’s the place we are sending the message — the suffering and pain won’t be in vain,” Gallant said during the visit, according to his office.
Since October 8, Hezbollah-led forces have attacked Israeli communities and military posts along the border on a near-daily basis, with the group saying it is doing so to support Gaza amid the war there. Tens of thousands of Israeli civilians have been displaced from Israel’s north since the regular exchanges of fire began.
So far, the skirmishes have resulted in 26 civilian deaths on the Israeli side, as well as the deaths of 20 IDF soldiers and reservists. There have also been several attacks from Syria, without any injuries.
Hezbollah has named 432 members who have been killed by Israel during the ongoing skirmishes, mostly in Lebanon but some also in Syria. Another 76 operatives from other terror groups, a Lebanese soldier, and dozens of civilians have also been killed.
Diana Bletter and Times of Israel staff contributed to this report.
