About 35 rockets were fired from Lebanon into the Israeli city of Safed, as the Jewish community sat down for a Passover Seder meal on Monday. Later, a Hezbollah statement confirmed the rocket attack, claiming to have launched “dozens” of Katyusha rockets toward the country.
More than 34,000 Palestinians have died in the Israel-Hamas war, at least two-thirds of them children and women, according to local health officials. It has destroyed two of Gaza’s largest cities and left behind a mass of destruction. About 80 percent of the region’s population has fled to other parts of the besieged coastal enclave.