Israel has stated that its own artillery killed Ofer Moskovitz, a 60-year-old avocado farmer in a kibbutz on the border with Lebanon, on Sunday. This contradicts earlier suggestions that a Hezbollah rocket was responsible for the incident.

An Israeli avocado farmer, Ofer Moskovitz, 60, was killed near the Lebanon border by Israeli army artillery fire, which the military confirmed was a misfire. He is the first Israeli civilian casualty in the border conflict.

A military investigation concluded that 60-year-old Ofer Moskovitz, a farmer killed while driving in northern Israel, died from a stray Israeli artillery shell, not Hezbollah fire.