Nir Poupko, 28, was named late Tuesday night as the victim of a rocket attack launched by Hezbollah towards the North, landing in Kibbutz Hagoshrim.
The rocket was part of a barrage of around 10. The IDF said it struck the site of the launch.
Magen David Adom (MDA) said the victim had initially been severely wounded and given medical treatment by paramedics. However, resuscitation efforts failed, and the paramedics pronounced him dead.
MDA paramedic Yuval Levy and EMTs Noam Wolf and Nadav recounted what they saw upon arrival at the scene.
“Immediately following the red alerts, we received a report of a casualty and headed to the scene. This was a difficult scene; we arrived on the scene and found a 30-year-old male with shrapnel wounds to his upper body. He was unconscious, and we immediately began medical treatment and resuscitation, following which we had to pronounce him dead.”
United Hatzalah EMT Reshef Nuriel said, “I performed CPR together with an intensive care ambulance team on a man about 30 years old who, according to bystanders, was hit by rocket shrapnel,” Nuriel said. “Unfortunately, after prolonged resuscitation efforts, he was pronounced dead.”
Some 10 projectiles cross into Israeli territory
At around 14:53 p.m., multiple rocket sirens sounded in northern Israel. The IDF soon said that some 10 projectiles had crossed into Israel from Lebanon, of which most had been intercepted.
IDF artillery forces fired at the source from which the launches had been detected, the military added.
The military also noted that earlier on Tuesday, Israel Air Force jets had struck Hezbollah terror infrastructure in the Jebchit area of southern Lebanon.
At around 15:51 p.m., several drone intrusion alerts sounded in the area of the Galilee Panhandle. The IDF affirmed several unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) crossed into Israel from Lebanon, one of which fell in the Beit Hillel area. No injuries were reported.
In a second announcement, the military noted that in the past few hours, 15 projectiles crossed into Israel from Lebanon, adding that some had crashed in the Yiron, Yiftah, and Metula areas in northern Israel.
The IDF added that IAF jets struck a Hezbollah observation post and terror infrastructure in the southern Lebanon areas of Ayta ash Shab and Kfar Kila, respectively.
Following the falls of the projectiles, several fires erupted in the area, which the National Fire and Rescue Authority was operating to extinguish, the IDF added.
This is a developing story.