Hizbullah resumes rocket fire
Hizbullah resumes rocket attacks at Israel on Friday a day after 8 civilians were killed by rockets in Akko, Maalot, Safed and Western Galilee
Two rockets fired by Hizbullah landed in open fields in Kiryat Shmona, police said Friday morning. No one was injured and no damage was reported.
Around 11.45 am rockets fired from southern Lebanon landed in open fields near Nahariya.
Minutes later rockets landed in open fields near two villages in the Maalot area. No one was injured and no damage was reported.
Around 1.10 pm two Katyusha rockets landed in Safed. No one was injured and no damage was reported.
Hizbullah fired 160 rockets at northern Israel on Thursday, killing eight civilians in Akko and Maalot.
The civilian casualties have been identified as: Sinati Sinati, 21, Amir Naeem, 18, Muhammad Faour, 1,7 of Tarshiha, Shimon Zaribi, 44, his 15 year-old daughter Mazal and Albert Ben-Abu, 41, Ariyeh Tamam, 51, and his brother Tiran, 39, of Akko.
The Nahariya hospital received five seriously injured people, two who were moderately wounded in the rocket attacks, and 21 people lightly injured; 32 people suffered from shock. Two of the moderately and seriously injured are a seven year-old child, and an 18 year-old youth. A two year-old infant is lightly injured.
There are two other wounded people, one critically injured, and the second wounded, who were airlifted to the Rambam hospital in Haifa.
Israel Police and Magen David Adom emergency services reported that four people, including a man and his daughter, were killed in Akko after they left their shelter following the first barrage. Three farmers were killed in the Maalot-Tarshiha area while lying on the ground.
The heavy barrage began shortly after 4 p.m. and continued until the evening hours. Some 160 rockets were fired at Israel on Thursday; 40-50 were fired during the deadly afternoon barrage.
At 7 p.m. another rocket barrage landed in the Maalot area.
