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Hezbollah launched a series of rocket attacks targeting the Upper and Western Galilee, causing damage and fires in Kiryat Shmona and Safed. The IDF responded by striking the rocket launchers and reportedly killed a senior Islamic Jihad operative near the Lebanon-Syria border. Some rockets were intercepted by the Iron Dome missile defense system.
In his Easter Vigil homily, Pope Francis urges Christians to remember their first encounter with Jesus and return to their "Galilee" to relive that memory and rediscover the grace of God's resurrection within them. He emphasizes that the resurrection of the disciples' hearts passes through Galilee, where they first met and were called by Jesus. The Pope encourages Christians to roll away every stone of disappointment and mistrust and to follow Jesus to Galilee, where he is waiting for each of them.