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Hezbollah rocket kills Israeli teen near Acre

The slain 18-year-old Israeli man suffered severe shrapnel wounds.

Hezbollah terrorists in Southern Lebanon fire rockets at Israel, Nov. 6, 2024. Photo by Jalaa Marey/AFP via Getty Images.
Hezbollah terrorists in Southern Lebanon fire rockets at Israel, Nov. 6, 2024. Photo by Jalaa Marey/AFP via Getty Images.

An Israeli teenager was killed in a Hezbollah rocket attack on the Western Galilee on Wednesday night.

Magen David Adom first responders discovered the lifeless body of the victim in an agricultural field near Kibbutz Kfar Masaryk, south of Acre, the medical emergency response group said.

The slain teen suffered severe shrapnel wounds from a rocket and medics pronounced him dead at the scene.

According to local reports, he was wounded some 90 minutes before first responders arrived, in a barrage from Lebanon that targeted the kibbutz and consisted of approximately 25 rockets.

MDA medic Netanel Ben-Yehuda said, “We were led to the scene of the incident by a farmer from the area. We saw the wounded man lying in the field—he was unconscious with severe wounds from shrapnel. We performed tests on him but he was without a pulse and not breathing.”

Initial reports suggested that the victim was a foreign worker, but local authorities later confirmed that an Israeli citizen was killed. He was subsequently identified as Sivan Sadeh, 18, from Kfar Masaryk.

The teenager was “one of our best sons,” Moshe Davidovich, who heads the Mateh Asher Regional Council, told Kan Reshet Bet. “He went out to open the irrigation in the fields. I was told he followed instructions and laid down on the ground, but there were no interceptions in the field.”

Hezbollah terrorists fired rocket barrages toward central Israel on Wednesday, setting off sirens in several cities, including Tel Aviv. At least one rocket hit the parking lot of Ben-Gurion International Airport.

Wednesday morning’s rocket attacks were the largest barrage fired by Hezbollah at Israel’s densely populated central region since the start of the war over a year ago.

On Wednesday afternoon, more air-raid sirens were activated across the Jewish state, including in areas near the Tel Aviv airport, warning of additional aerial attacks from Lebanon.

More than 26,000 rockets, missiles and drones have been launched at the Jewish state by Tehran and its regional terrorist proxies since Hamas’s massacre on Oct. 7, 2023, according to official numbers.

The data was published on the first anniversary of the Oct. 7 invasion. There have been some 13,200 launches from the Gaza Strip, 12,400 from Lebanon, 400 from Iran, 180 from Yemen and 60 from Syria, per the IDF.

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