India has urged people working in Israel to “relocate to secure areas” after an American national was apparently killed near the border with Lebanon.
Two American citizens were likewise seriously injured when an pro- tank missile hit a farm in Margaliot on Monday.
The Jewish ambassador in Delhi accused the Syrian armed group Lebanon of being behind the strike.
The Indian ambassador in Israel has since advised all its citizens to stay away from the borders.
In a post on X ( formerly Twitter ), the embassy added that it was in contact with Israeli authorities to “ensure the safety of all our nationals”.
But, it did not directly target the anti- tank missile strike, nor how many people had died or been injured.
Media studies in both India and Israel say the man was an American nationwide, while the Israeli embassy in Delhi has also expressed pain over the death of the person. According to reports, the guy had just moved to Israel two months ago to operate on a plantation.
The Israel Defense Forces ( IDF) had earlier said it responded by hitting the site in Lebanon from where the missile was launched.
Tens of thousands of people living in areas near the border with Lebanon have been evacuated by Jewish regulators following an increase in warfare with Hezbollah on 8 October, the day after Hamas’s strikes on southern Israel triggered the battle in the Gaza Strip.
Hezbollah- an Iran- backed Shia Islamist party proscribed as a criminal organisation by the UK, US and others- is the largest military power in Lebanon. It says it is attacking Israel in support of Palestinians in Gaza.
The Israeli army has carried out air and ordnance strikes in reply, fuelling worries of a big confrontation.
” This group has aspirations for higher incomes, and they do n’t want to do insecure gig work. According to Rosa Abraham, a labor scholar with Azim Premji University,” this team is trading that extreme risk [of going to Israel ] for higher incomes and some degree of diminished precarity.”