Woman killed, several wounded following rocket strike in Shfaram, northern Israel

Hezbollah fired over 75 rockets on Monday, with one rocket in the evening striking the primarily Israeli-Arab town of Shfaram in northern Israel and killing a woman in her 50s as well as wounding ten others.

Safa Kat Awad, a resident of Shfaram in her 50s, was named as the individual killed in the Hezbollah rocket strike in Israel's North, Israeli media reported. 

Magen David Adom (MDA) said the victim was killed while in a safe room in a building in Shfaram. She had been critically wounded, and paramedics who arrived on scene were forced to pronounce her dead.

There was no initial explanation about what caused her death, being that she was in a safe room, with very few of the war’s deaths having occurred once civilians have been in safe rooms and far more deaths occurring with civilians who are out in the open.

Some ten individuals sustained light wounds from broken glass and were transferred for further medical care, MDA stated. 

The Rambam Health Care Campus in Haifa said it was treating some 30 people who had been wounded to various degrees in the barrage, including a 41-year-old woman and a four-year-old child in serious condition. 

Rocket barrage to North

The IDF said that Hezbollah had fired some five rockets at Israel, following the sirens that blared in Tamra, Shfaram, and Kabul, among other places, starting at 6:27 p.m. local time. 

Police said that following the barrage, several buildings in Shfaram had suffered a direct hit, adding that forces were operating to rescue people who had been trapped in a building that sustained major damage.

MDA paramedic Hamza Al Hija recounted what he saw upon arrival at the scene. "We arrived quickly at the scene and began searching the four-storey building. On the top floor we found a female aged about 50 with a multi-system injury, she was unconscious with no pulse and not breathing, and we pronounced her death at the scene.

"In the lower floors and in nearby buildings we located about ten mildly wounded casualties who walked out of the buildings, and who were treated by MDA teams. All were evacuated in mild condition to hospital."

"Tragically, a woman was killed after a rocket directly hit a residential building," United Hatzalah paramedic Rami Swaid said.

"Additionally, we provided assistance at the scene to over twenty building residents in various conditions - some were evacuated by United Hatzalah ambulances that arrived at the scene," he noted, further stating that United Hatzalah medical staff was providing care to those suffering from anxiety. 

A small number of other Israelis were hurt in other incidents relating to Hezbollah’s periodic rocket fire throughout the day, though there were no other deaths.