Israel-Gaza-Lebanon updates: Rabbi missing in UAE found dead, Israel says

The Israel Defense Forces reported approximately 250 projectile launches into Israel from Lebanon on Sunday.

The Hezbollah launches set off air raid warnings across central Israel close to the country's largest city Tel Aviv.

At least two people were wounded in Petah Tivka -- some 7 miles east of Tel Aviv -- according to Israel's Magen David Adom emergency service. Victims were treated for smoke inhalation and blast injuries, with at least three others treated for anxiety.

A man was also treated for shrapnel wounds in the northern Israeli town of Kfar Bloom, the MDA said.

Sunday's rocket fire was of unusual intensity and came as diplomats continued to push for a cease-fire between the IDF and Hezbollah.

The IDF, meanwhile, continued striking targets across Lebanon including in the capital Beirut.

An IDF strike in central Beirut on Saturday killed at least 20 people and injured 66 others. The force is yet to comment on the attack.

-ABC News' Jordana Miller and Victoria Beaule

The Lebanese Armed Forces said one of its soldiers was killed and 18 others wounded -- some seriously -- in an Israeli strike on a military position in the southern Tyre region on Sunday.

Israel targeted an "army center in Al-Amiriya on the Al-Qalila-Tyre road," the LAF wrote on X. "The center also sustained severe damage," it added.

The IDF told ABC News the incident is under review, saying in a statement: "The IDF expresses regret over the incident and emphasizes that its operations are directed solely against the Hezbollah terrorist organization, not the Lebanese Armed Forces."

Lebanon's caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati said the strike was a "bloody message rejecting all efforts to reach a cease-fire," referring to the Lebanese army's traditional position as part of peace efforts.

-ABC News' Victoria Beaule

The Israel Defense Forces said in a Sunday post to X that it struck "terrorist infrastructure used by Hezbollah to smuggle weapons from Syria into Lebanon" near the Jousieh border crossing controlled by Damascus.

"The Jousieh Crossing is under the control of the Syrian regime and is operated by Syrian security forces," the IDF wrote. "The weapons are transferred by Hezbollah's 4400 Unit, which is responsible for the terror organization's weapons smuggling operations from Iran via Syria."

-ABC News' Jordana Miller

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office said Sunday that authorities located the body of rabbi Zvi Kogan, who had been missing in the United Arab Emirates since Nov. 21.

Kogan, 28, was an Israeli-Moldovan national and managed a kosher grocery store in Dubai.

Netanyahu's office said the rabbi was killed, describing his death as "a criminal anti-Semitic terrorist incident." Israel, the office added, "will act by all means and bring justice to the criminals responsible for his death."

Israeli President Isaac Herzog expressed "sorrow and outrage" over the killing.

The UAE's Foreign Ministry confirmed in a statement that Kogan was reported missing. "The relevant authorities in the UAE have initiated the search operations and investigations immediately following the receipt of the report," it said.

The ministry did not note Kogan's Israeli citizenship, describing him as a "missing Moldovan citizen."

Three people have been arrested in the UAE, according to the country's Interior Ministry.

-ABC News' Jordana Miller and Somayeh Malekian.