Hezbollah rockets land in open areas in northern Israeli city
23/7/2006 10:46
Six rockets fired by Lebanese Shiite group Hezbollah landed in open areas
in the northern Israeli city of Haifa yesterday afternoon.
Several loud
explosions were heard after sirens of the city were activated in both downtown
and suburbs.
Residents were instructed to go into shelters and fortified
structures.
A total of 18 people in northern Israel have been hospitalized
for injuries or shock sustained from fresh Hezbollah rocket attacks since
Saturday morning.
In Israel's northernmost city of Kiryat Shmona, six people
were lightly injured as approximately 26 rockets landed in and around the
city.
Other northern Israeli towns and areas, including Nahariya, Carmiel,
Safed, Rosh Pina, Ma'alot and the northern Galilee panhandle were also attacked
by Hezbollah rockets on Saturday.
Fourteen Katyusha rockets landed in
Nahariya while 13 others hit Carmiel, where one person was moderately injured
and another lightly injured.
Hezbollah continued showering Israel with
rockets as the Jewish state kept up a 11-day-old massive assault in Lebanon
following the capture of two Israeli soldiers by Hezbollah guerillas in a
cross-border attack on July 12.
Xinhua
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