Two killed in Hezbollah rocket barrage toward Golan Heights

A husband and wife were killed after projectiles were fired from Lebanon to the Golan Heights, the police said on Tuesday.

Earlier on Tuesday, the Fire and Rescue Authority stated that it had rescued two individuals who had been in a vehicle that had sustained a direct hit. 

Magen David Adom (MDA) said the two had been critically wounded. 

MDA paramedics Aviv Attar and Tarek Heyb recounted what they saw upon arrival at the scene. "Immediately after the alerts, we received a report of two casualties and went to the scene. We arrived at the area, and the scene was difficult; we saw a vehicle that had received a direct hit, and in the front part of it, an unconscious man and woman who were critically wounded."

Some 40 projectiles cross into Israeli territory 

The IDF said some 40 projectiles had crossed from Lebanon into the center of the Golan Heights, with falls being detected.  

Fires erupted in eight different locations in the area following the fall of the projectiles, the Fire and Rescue Authority noted.

Earlier on Tuesday, Yasser Nimr Qarbash, former bodyguard to Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, was killed in an alleged Israeli strike on the Damascus-Beirut highway.