A woman was killed Tuesday evening in a Hezbollah rocket attack on the Galilee, as both Iran and its Lebanese terror proxy bombarded northern Israel.

Hezbollah launched a barrage of some 30 rockets toward the area, and fired drones that triggered sirens throughout the north, as it continued to mount near-constant attacks amid intensifying fighting and Israeli airstrikes in Lebanon.

The woman, in her 30s, was critically injured by a rocket impact near the Mahanayim Junction, and the Magen David Adom (MDA) ambulance service said its medics declared her death at the scene.

Two others who were lightly hurt by shrapnel were treated as well.

A short while later, Iran fired a ballistic missile salvo that triggered alerts across northern Israel, one of at least 12 volleys fired at the Jewish state on Tuesday.

One missile impacted in the city of Safed, with MDA saying it treated two people who were hurt by glass shards and who did not require hospitalization.

Earlier in the day, Defense Minister Israel Katz said Israel would maintain control of a “security zone” in southern Lebanon, up to the Litani River, until the threat of Hezbollah is removed.

On Monday, Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich suggested Israel go further and move its border with Lebanon up to the Litani River.

Israel ran a costly occupation of Lebanon’s south from 1982 to 2000.

The IDF has been regularly striking what it says is a range of Hezbollah targets throughout Lebanon, including in the Shiite group’s stronghold in southern Beirut.

One such strike on the capital on Monday by the Israeli Navy killed a member of the Quds Force, the extraterritorial arm of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, the military said Tuesday.

The IDF said Muhammad Ali Kourani had been “advancing terror attacks directed by Iranian intelligence officials.”

The strike was carried out by the Navy following intelligence provided by the Shin Bet security agency, the military added.

Since it resumed its attacks on March 2, Hezbollah has been firing an average of about 150 rockets per day, according to the IDF. Roughly two-thirds of the daily rocket fire has been directed at Israeli forces operating in southern Lebanon and along the border, with the remaining third aimed at Israel.

The Israeli military has said that it has killed around 600 Hezbollah operatives, including over 220 members of the terror group’s elite Radwan Force, since then.

More than 2,000 Hezbollah targets in Lebanon have also been struck, including 120 command centers, 100 weapon depots and 130 missile launchers, according to the IDF.

The IDF believes Hezbollah still possesses thousands of short-range rockets, along with hundreds of longer-range projectiles. The IDF has said that Hezbollah is launching most of its attacks from deeper within southern Lebanon, and not from close to the border.

More than 400 ballistic missiles have been launched from Iran at Israel since the start of the war on February 28, with the military reporting an interception rate of 92 percent of attacks heading for populated areas and key infrastructure.

The Israeli Air Force has conducted hundreds of waves of strikes in Iran, dropping over 13,000 bombs on Iranian regime and military sites, including air defense systems, ballistic missile launchers, weapon production sites, nuclear facilities and various headquarters.

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