Rocketing Continues In Israel

Hezbollah has continued to launch rockets at civilians in Israel. More than 80 rockets have struck cities and town across Northern Israel today.

A 30-year-old resident of Nahariya was killed on Tuesday afternoon as Hezbollah guerillas launched a second barrage of Katyusha rockets at towns and cities in the north of the country.

Another person was hurt in a rocket strike on Gush Halav, in the Mount Meron area of the Galillee.

The total number of Israeli civilians killed by Katyusha rocket fire from Lebanon since the start of fighting is thus far at 13.

The fresh volleys struck also Safed, Hatzor, Carmiel, Moshe Sde Eleizer, Acre, Kiryat Shmona, Tiberias, the Krayot region (Haifa suburbs of Kiryat Yam, Kiryat Haim, and Kiryat Ata), Hatzor Haglilit, Yesod Hama'ala, the central Golan Heights, and the Haifa Bay region.

Eye witness Eli Dayari told Channel 10 television that the rocket hit a two-story building in Nahariya, and an apartment there was on fire.

"I was near the bomb shelter, there was a humongous boom, and I saw it was two meters next to my house, really two meters," he said. "People are panicking and the house was on fire, really big flames, the fire fighters are here."

Eyewitnesses reported Tuesday afternoon that the victim of the Nahariya attack was walking towards a bomb shelter in a public park 20 meters from his home when he was directly struck by the rocket. The victim's wife witnessed the incident as it unfolded.

Tuesday afternoon's barrage, which included more than 80 rockets, was one of the more fierce to have struck Israel since the outbreak of hostilities.

The rocket fire also ignited fires in the northern Golan Heights near the town of Goshrim and the Nahal Amod and Rosh Pina regions.

The train depot in Haifa where eight people were killed in a rocket strike Sunday was hit for a second time Tuesday afternoon, as fresh barrages of Katyusha rockets fired by Hezbollah guerillas in Lebanon struck the northern towns of Haifa and Safed.

Because of the nature of these rockets with their very simple launch system it is difficult to locate the launchers before the rockets are fired. I would not be at all surprised if there is some very extensive counter-battery fire once they are launched, though.