Rocket damages
צילום: עמרי אילת
Rocket salvo hits North overnight
For first time Hizbullah fires rockets at northern communities in middle of night: Rockets strike Ma'alot at 1:30 a.m., directly hitting buildings; a number of people suffer shock. Thursday morning rockets hit Kiryat Shmona. IAF renews air strikes in Beirut
Overnight Thursday Hizbullah fired a rocket salvo at Maalot around 1:30 a.m. In the early morning hours, three more barrages pounded northern Israel: Two hit the Upper Galilee and a third landed in Ma'alot.
Roughly an hour after the rockets hit the North, witnesses said the IDF renewed air strikes on Beirut. According to the report, air craft fired at least four missiles towards the city’s Shiite neighborhood of Dahiya, which is considered a Hizbullah stronghold. No casualties were reported.
At 1:30 a.m. air raid sirens were heard in Carmiel and western Galilee communities, and residents were called to enter bomb shelters and protected rooms. Shortly afterwards, two rockets hit a community next to Maalot. One rocket directly hit a house, causing damages, and the second landed in the yard of another home.
A number of people suffered shock and were treated by emergency Magen David Adom crews. Police and firefighters also arrived on the scene and helped treat the wounded.
Thursday morning seven rockets were fired at Kiryat Shmona. They exploded in open areas without causing damage.
This was the first time since the beginning of the fighting that Hizbullah fired deep into northern Israel during the night hours. Up until now, during such hours they fired only at communities immediately adjacent to the border.
Western Galilee firefighting chief of operations Amir Levi told Ynet, “We were the first to arrive on the scene, and we searched the area at both sites where rockets hit near Maalot. We shut of the gas supplies of the buildings that were hit, to prevent the risk of gas explosions.”
Most of the rockets fired Thursday morning landed in open areas. No one was wounded and no damage was caused.
Wednesday: Rocket ‘record’ broken
By Wednesday night,over 210 rockets were fired at the North – the highest number of rockets fired in one day since the outbreak of the fighting 23 days ago. David Lalshouk, 52, from kibbutz Saar by Nahariya, was killed while riding his bike along one of the kibbutz paths. Dozens more people were wounded in the rocket attacks.
Likewise, following a week in which no rockets hit Haifa and the Karyot, attacks were renewed Wednesday on the area. A number of rockets hit open areas in the Karyot but caused no damage or injuries.
The IDF noted that the Air Force had destroyed the launcher which fired towards the Karyot, which was set up north of Tyre in Lebanon.
