ISRAEL: Hizbollah rocket attacks kill 15 and wound dozens in northern Israel.

Record ID: 352717

  • Title: ISRAEL: Hizbollah rocket attacks kill 15 and wound dozens in northern Israel.
  • Date: 7th August 2006
  • Summary: (BN13) HAIFA, ISRAEL (JULY 6, 2006) (REUTERS)(NIGHT SHOTS) EMERGENCY WORKERS IN STREET VARIOUS OF SMOKE DAMAGED BUILDING BUILDING ON FIRE PEOPLE CLIMBING UP BUILDING PEOPLE TRYING TO DIG THROUGH RUBBLE BUILDING ON FIRE MORE OR RESCUE ATTEMPT INJURED ARRIVING AT HOSPITAL (W4) HAIFA, ISRAEL (JULY 6, 2006) (REUTERS)(NIGHT SHOTS) WOMAN STANDING BY AMBULANCE INJURED ON GROU
  • Embargoed: 22nd August 2006 13:00
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  • Location: Israel
  • Country: Israel
  • Topics: War / Fighting
  • Reuters ID: LVABPB0G312DF5JQ87GJ7KWNV4K5
  • Story Text: Hizbollah rockets killed 15 people in northern Israel on Sunday (August 6, 2006), including 12 army reservists called up for duty, Israel's highest death toll in a single day since the start of the Lebanon war.
    The Israeli army said the reservists were preparing to join ground operations in southern Lebanon and had been killed in the attack on the Kfar Giladi communal farm.
    Medics put the death toll at 12, with dozens of people wounded, making it the guerrilla group's deadliest single missile strike.
    Later, rockets rained down on the northern city of Haifa, killing three people and wounding up to 121, medics and local media said.
    A police commander told Israel Radio that a rocket slammed into two adjacent houses, causing them to partially collapse. Several people were briefly trapped in the rubble.
    On July 16, a Hizbollah rocket killed eight workers at a railway station in the northern city of Haifa.
    Sunday's casualties bring to 48 the number of people killed in northern Israel in rocket strikes since war broke out on July 12 after Hizbollah seized two soldiers in a cross-border raid.
    Nearly 200 rockets landed across northern Israel on Sunday, police said.
    Hizbollah has fired more than 2,700 rockets at Israel.
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