Smoke billows from the Israeli village of Beit Hillil adjacent to Lebanon after the village was hit by Hizbullah's mortar yesterday. No casualties is reported. -Xinhua

Lebanon's Hezbollah guerrillas fired a record number of more than 190 rockets on northern Israel so far yesterday after a relative lull in rocket attacks for two days, local media reported.

It marked the biggest single-day barrage from Lebanon since Israel launched its offensive against Hezbollah on July 12. A 52-year-old man riding his bicycle was killed Wednesday when a Katyusha struck Kibbutz Saar, north of Nahariya. The strike brings to 19 the death toll from the rocket attacks since July 12.

A Khaibar-1 rocket landed near Beit Shean Wednesday and at least seven people were wounded.

Beit Shean is about 70 kilometers south of the border with Lebanon and the furthest a missile fired by the guerilla group has reached since the start of the conflict.

Later on Wednesday, the Afula area, about 55 kilometers south of the Lebanese border, was struck by a long-range Khaibar-1rocket that apparently broke into pieces while in flight and landed in several different open areas. There were no injuries. The rocket is of the same kind as the one that landed earlier near the West Bank city of Jenin, leaving a crater, but causing no casualties.

"We know that they did not intend to strike Palestinian territory. They intended to strike Israel," said Fahmi Zarer, a spokesman for Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah Party. "It was only a technical problem that made this rocket land here in the Palestinian territories."

More than 1,900 rockets have hit northern Israel since the start of the fighting.

According to the Health Ministry, 1,733 people have been treated at hospitals throughout the north, mostly for shock and anxiety attacks. Of that number, 98 people remain hospitalized, 10 in serious condition, 36 in moderate condition and 52 with light injuries.