Hezbollah Rocket Attacks
More than 200 rockets have hit Israel again today, with three people killed and 29 wounded.
Three people were killed and 29 wounded, including one critically and three seriously, as Hezbollah fired more than 200 Katyusha rockets into northern Israel on Friday afternoon.
Manal Azzam, a 27-year-old mother of two was killed in the Arab Druze village of Maghar in the Lower Galilee, near Tiberias, when a rocket hit an adjacent apartment. Her children sustained light wounds, and two Maghar residents sustained serious wounds in the strike. Azzam was laid to rest Friday at 7 P.M.
Two people were killed and several others were wounded when a rocket hit a restaurant in the Druze village of Majdal Krum.
Police en route to the scene of the damage in Majdal Krum encountered difficulty in reaching the wounded due to the swelling crowd of people nearby.
A resident of Sh'ar Yeshuv, adjacent to Kiryat Shmona, was critically wounded in a rocket strike Friday. One person sustained serious wounds when a Katyusha struck the village of Arab village of Bu'aineh, near Majdal Krum.
In Kiryat Shmona, which absorbed close to 60 rockets Friday, two people were moderately injured; one person was moderately hurt and 14 others were lightly wounded in Majdal Krum; three people were lightly wounded in Horfesh, and one person was lightly wounded in Safed.
In a barrage of rockets fired at Migdal Ha'emek, three people sustained injuries - one moderately and two suffered light wounds.
Friday's fatalities bring the number of people killed in Katyusha strikes since July 12 to 30.
According to the police, Hezbollah has fired 2,500 rockets at Israel in recent weeks.
Hezbollah is pulling out the stops right now.
By Black Jack, Friday, 4 August , 2006 @ 1:41 pm
What strikes me is that given the large number of rockets fired into Israel, the actual death and destruction seems rather light. A current TV news report says 200 rockets were fired this morning and 3 casualties resulted.
If this proves to be a war of attrition, given Israel’s ability to detect rockets and quickly respond with air attacks and artillery fire, it seems Hezbollah is going to come out on the short end of the stick.
Could be, it’s time to crank up the old PR campaign, get the “peaceniks” out in the streets again, head for the UN, and call for a cease fire before there aren’t any Hezbollah fighters left.