An artillery rocket fired by Hezbollah into a farming commune in Israel killed 10 people. The rocket apparently landed directly on a crown of people near the entrance to the village.
One rocket landed near the entrance of the communal farm of Kfar Giladi on the border, killing all 10 victims. Channel Two television reported that nine reserve soldiers were among the dead, and television footage showed a soldier holding his head in grief.
"It was a direct hit on a crowd of people," said Dan Ronen, the chief of the northern police command Ronen told Army Radio the Katyusha barrage was the most intense in 23 days of fighting with Hezbollah.
Black smoke rose over the town and convoys of police, military and rescue vehicles raced through the kibbutz. A group of people ran through a field toward a military helicopter, carrying a stretcher with an injured man wearing a bloody bandage and a respiration bag.
"The scene is very difficult. It can be described as a battlefield," said Shimon Abutbul, a rescue worker who was one of the first to arrive in the area. "There was a lot of blood."
"We saw difficult scenes in the days of this fighting. This is the worst I have seen," he said, adding that the rockets also hit cars.
A nearby forest burst into flames from the barrage and huge plumes of gray smoke rose into the air.
The barrage of at least 80 rockets lasted more than 15 minutes. More rockets were fired as rescue workers tried to treat and evacuate the injured.
Note the additional war crime Hezbollah has added to the long list it has already committed. Because Hezbollah is part of the Lebanese government and is bound by the Geneva Conventions. Notice anything else? Where are the photos plastered across every, single media outlet depicting this atrocity? I guess the wireservice photographers are too busy ginning up fake photos to bother with real war crimes.
