A woman in her 60s and a man in his 20s were killed in a rocket attack on the northern suburbs of Haifa on Thursday. Another man in his 70s was wounded in a barrage of some 25 projectiles.
The victims were identified as members of the same family, from the Arab city of Shfar'am who were at their olive grove.
The attack came hours after five people were killed when missiles struck the northern border town of Metula.
Hezbollah fires rockets at the Galilee on Thursday
This is the deadliest day of civilian casualties in the north since the war began.
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Emergency teams at a site where five people were killed in a rocket attack
(Photo: Hatzalah )
While Hezbollah fired rockets at Israeli cities, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with American envoys Amos Hochstein and Brett McGurk in Jerusalem to discuss progress in the negotiations for a cease-fire on the Lebanese front.
"The prime minister told his guests that the main point is not the writer agreement but Israel's ability to enforce it and respond to any threat from Lebanon on its security, in a way that will bring the residents of the Galilee safely back home," the Prime Minister's Office (PMO) said in a statement.
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