Ma'alot: Man moderately injured by rocket
(VIDEO) Another person lightly hurt in barrage which hits Ma'alot Tuesday afternoon. Home Front Command chief goes through unpleasant experience during visit to Ziv Medical Center, when rocket lands nearby; no injuries reported. Some 145 rockets hit north by Tuesday afternoon
VIDEO - Rocket fire causes injuries again: A person was moderately injured and another man was lightly hurt in Ma'alot Tuesday afternoon when a rocket barrage was fired at the town's area and a house was hit by a shock wave. Another house in the area sustained a direct hit, but was luckily empty.
Rescue forces, police and Magen David Adom crews were dispatched to the area and attended to the injured. Neighbors said that the house owners left the house a short while before the barrage.
Earlier, seven people suffered from anxiety after rocket hit a home in the Safed area. Another rocket landed near the city. Rescue forces were dispatched to the landing sites but discovered that there were no injuries. Magen David Adom crews treated some people for shock.
Simultaneously, several rockets reportedly fell in open areas in the northern Golan Heights. Firefighters from the Golan Heights and Upper Galilee stations were dispatched to the area to check whether the rockets started fires.
More than 145 rockets hit the north by Tuesday afternoon, landing in Nahariya, Akko, Carmiel, Kiryat Shmona, Safed and the Tiberias area.
Home Front Command Chief Yitzhak Gershon went through an unpleasant experience Tuesday during his visit to the Ziv Medical Center in Safed. While the major-general was busy praising the hospital and the work being done by its staff under fire, a rocket fell nearby. Luckily, the rocket landed in an open area and no injuries were caused.
Gershon listened to reviews from the hospital managers on the fortification of the hospital and toured the maternity ward which has been moved to a fortified basement. He later briefed reporters on the hospital's balcony, when a whistle was suddenly heard and a rocket fell in the area.
The briefing continued after a minute, but only a few second passed before another landing was heard, although not in the major-general's field of vision.
Gershon referred to the plan to evacuated northern residents to the center of the country: "Does anyone think that it would have been possible to take four million citizens and move them? The decision to evacuate entire communities is to be made by the political echelon."
49 civilians killed so far
At least 10 rockets landed in the Kiryat Shmona area at 11 a.m. Tuesday, and at least four rockets landed in open areas near Nahariya; there were no injuries. A factory suffered a direct hit in the rocket barrage that hit the Maaleh Yosef Regional Council. The factory suffered great damage, but there were no injuries.
In addition, two rockets landed in the afternoon in open areas in Tiberias. Fires broke out in the area and firefighters were dispatched to the place to put them out.
Injured evacuated to Nahariya hospital (Photo: Ahiya Raved)
A number of fires also broke out in the area of Moshav Goren and Moshav Dovev as a result of rockets that landed in the area. Firefighters were dispatched to the area and worked to put out the fires.
On Monday, more than 160 rockets landed in the north. More than half of them hit the Kiryat Shmona area and lightly hurt one person. In addition, a school in the city suffered great damage. The rocket hit one of the classrooms, blew up and caused a lot of damage to the building and to equipment.
Data published by the police revealed that 3,050 rockets have been fired at Israel since the onset of the fighting. Some 750 of them landed inside towns and the rest hit open areas. The death toll currently stands at 49 civilians, while 75 people are still hospitalized.
Meital Yasur-Beit Or contributed to the report
