ISRAEL: Hizbollah rockets slam into Israel's port city of Haifa wounding over twenty people

Record ID: 352496

  • Title: ISRAEL: Hizbollah rockets slam into Israel's port city of Haifa wounding over twenty people
  • Date: 24th July 2006
  • Summary: (EU) HAIFA, ISRAEL (JULY 23, 2006) (REUTERS) FIRE IN SHRUBS OUTSIDE BUILDING ISRAELI ARMY OFFICER AND WOMAN HELPING ELDERLY WOMAN USING WALKER TO EVACUATE AREA CLOSEUP OF ELDERLY WOMAN USING WALKER TO ESCAPE CLOSEUP OF FIRES BURNING IN SHRUBS / ZOOM OUT TO WIDE VIEW OF LAWN OUTSIDE BUILDING WITH POLICE AT SCENE MORE OF POLICE AT SCENE AMBULANCE ARRIVING POLICE CARRYING ELD
  • Embargoed: 8th August 2006 13:00
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  • Location: Israel
  • Country: Israel
  • Topics: War / Fighting
  • Reuters ID: LVA3LSUO6U7HX60JLO8A0V9DVR4Y
  • Story Text: Another barrage of Hizbollah rockets hit the northern Israeli city of Haifa on Sunday (July 23), wounding five people, medics said.
    They said the wounded were in a building that was hit.
    The strikes followed earlier attacks in the day that killed two people and wounded 15.
    The barrage on Haifa was part of a wave of rockets that slammed into northern Israel from Lebanon. Medics said several people had been wounded in other towns.
    Air raid sirens also sounded in the town of Zichron Yaakov, which lies 60 km (40 miles) south of the Lebanese border.
    The army said it believed no rockets had hit Zichron Yaakov -- which would be the furthest the missiles had reached since the conflict began on July 12, after Hizbollah captured two Israeli soldiers and killed eight others in a cross-border raid.
    Haifa, Israel's third largest city, is a favoured target. It lies 35 km (20 miles) south of the border.
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