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At least 90 wounded 2 killed as Hizbollah fires missiles into Israeli towns residents in shelters - IDF strikes Lebanon

July 13, 2006

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At least 90 wounded in rocket attacks second woman dies



Damage caused when the Katyushas landed in Safed on Thursday.

Katyusha rockets landed in the northern Israeli towns of Karmiel, Hatzor, and Majd el-Kurum, as well as several other communities, throughout the north on Thursday afternoon.

At least 28 people were wounded in Majd el-Kurum - two moderately and seven from shrapnel. Others were lightly wounded and suffering from shock.

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At least 90 Israelis have been wounded since the onset of Operation Just Reward Wednesday afternoon.

Residents of Safed, Rosh Pina Hatzor and Karmiel were ordered to enter bomb shelters and fortified rooms on Thursday afternoon, as other residents of the north were ordered to do earlier.

The calls came after Katyushas fell in Safed's immigration center, old marketplace, Safed College and the Amit Center.

Some 21 Safed residents were wounded. At least two people were wounded at the immigration center. Two people were seriously wounded from shrapnel, while some were lightly wounded, and many more were in shock.

MDA teams were treating the wounded at the scene and evacuating in ambulances to the city's Ziv Hospital (telephone 1255161, 04-6828621 for the hearing impaired).

A 70-year-old Safed woman died of her wounds after arriving at the hospital, raising the civilian death toll to two.

Hospitals throughout the North were ordered to raise their readiness level to Level Three, the second highest possible. Medical teams were being ordered to remain at their posts in expectation of continued Katyusha strikes.

Earlier, on Thursday morning, one woman was killed and 29 were wounded - one seriously - when four Hizbullah-fired Katyusha rockets landed in central Nahariya. The woman was killed while sitting on her fifth-floor balcony. A rocket hit a floor above, cut through the ceiling and killed her.

A short while later, two Katyusha rockets fell near Kibbutz Hagoshrim. Buildings in the area shook from the impact.

Visitors were refusing to leave the hotel in the kibbutz and reservations were reportedly being canceled.

Some 60 katyushas have been fired into northern Israel since Thursday morning.

Many northern residents have begun leaving the area, fearing more attacks.

At Nahariya Hospital, patients were moved to secure rooms on lower floors, and about 60 expectant mothers were taken to underground shelters, said hospital deputy director Moshe Daniel. He said elective surgery has been halted. "We are on very high alert," Daniel told Israel Radio. "We are prepared."

Nahariya Mayor Jackie Sabag said the whole town has shut down, with businesses closed. Sabag urged all residents to comply with army orders to stay in underground shelters.

All soldiers serving in Northern Command Headquarters in Safed also went down to shelters due to Katyusha attacks.

Katyushas also fell on Thursday morning in Kfar Nasi in the Galilee and in Kibbutz Mahanayim, and along with the rockets in Karmiel, signified an increase in the range of Katyusha rockets to 20-30 kilometers. There were no immediate reports of casualties in the attacks. Hizbullah said that in some of its attacks it was using a rocket called "Thunder 1" for the first time, which may have a longer range than older Katyushas.

On Thursday morning alone, there were confirmed Katyusha attacks on Nahariya, Rosh Pina, Kibbutz Hagoshrim, Kibbutz Mishmar Hayarden, Gadot, Kfar Nasi, Beit Hillel, Kibbutz Mahanayim, Kibbutz Kabri, Mount Hermon, Netiv Haasarah, Mount Meron, Shlomi, Zar'it.

By the afternoon, rockets hit Karmiel, Safed, Hatzor, and Majd el-Kurum as well.

"This is a new situation. The residents of Israel need to know that we are going into a period that will require resilience," Minister Issac Herzog said after the emergency cabinet meeting late Wednesday night.

According to Herzog, Israel is holding Lebanon responsible for the attack, which was carried out from its territory.

A woman was killed in her home, 8 people injured, in Hizballah rocket barrage from Lebanon on northern Israeli resort town of Nahariya

July 13, 2006, 8:20 AM (GMT+02:00)

Nine casualties reported. The resort town's high street, Gaaton Boulevard, took direct hits from four rockets, 10km from Lebanese border.

Hizballah claims 60 Katyusha and Grad rockets were fired into Israel early Thursday. Included are Kiryat Shemona, Rosh Pinah, Mishmar Hayarden, Mahanayim airfield and Kibbutz Kfar Hanassi. Some of these locations up to 20 km kilometers inside Israel have never before come under Hizballah attack. The Nahariya regional hospital has moved its wards to underground, bombproof facilities.

Ten rockets hit the Israeli Air Force intelligence surveillance center on Mt. Meron early Thursday. No casualties. After spending the night in bomb shelters, a quarter of a million Israeli civilians were told to stay there Thursday. Some people are heading south out of Kiryat Shemona. Summer schools and camps, also shops, are closed. The train service to Nahariya is suspended. The education ministry has cancelled all summer school trips to the north.

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Katyusha Rockets Striking Many Northern Communities
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(IsraelNN.com) Katyusha rockets on Thursday morning have landed in and near many northern areas, including Rosh Pinah, Margaliot, IDF Northern Command Headquarters, Machanayim, Tzfat, Machanayim Airport, and Moshav Mishmar HaYarden.

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