FACT CHECK · LEBANON: HEZBOLLAH, UNIFIL, 2006 AND 2026
Claim: Hezbollah's rockets don't reach Nazareth
FALSETHE ANSWER
They did. On 19 July 2006 a Katyusha hit a Nazareth street and killed two Arab brothers, Rabia and Mohammed Abu Taluzi, aged 3 and 9: the first Arab citizens of Israel killed by Hezbollah that war.
SOURCE
Al Jazeera, 19 Jul 2006; CBS News; JPost
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