ISRAEL/JERUSALEM: At least 2 people wounded after a Hizbollah rocket fired from Lebanon smashes into a three-storey residential building in Haifa

Record ID: 398170

  • Title: ISRAEL/JERUSALEM: At least 2 people wounded after a Hizbollah rocket fired from Lebanon smashes into a three-storey residential building in Haifa
  • Date: 17th July 2006
  • Summary: (W3) HAIFA, ISRAEL (JULY 17, 2006) (REUTERS) PAN: ISRAELI FINANCE MINISTER ABRAHAM HIRCHSON WALKING FROM CAR PAN: MAN SHOWING HIRCHSON HAIFA SKYLINE AND TALKING TO HIM (SOUNDBITE) (English) ISRAELI FINANCE MINISTER ABRAHAM HIRCHSON, SAYING: "We came here to tell the people how brave they are. They are telling us that they will stand with the government, and they are givin
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  • Topics: War / Fighting,International Relations
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  • Story Text: A Hizbollah rocket fired from Lebanon smashed into a three-storey residential building in the northern Israeli city of Haifa on Monday (July 17), wounding at least two people.
    The rocket tore the front off the building, crushing cars underneath. Medics said two people were being treated at the scene.
    The attack was one of many that hit northern Israeli communities throughout the day on Monday.
    Part of Israel's effort to strike back at Hizbollah included continuous artillery barrages on Monday fired from northern Israel into Lebanon. Air strikes, and a naval bombardment have also been employed by Israel.
    Israelis also began assessing the damage at the site of a rocket attack in the Israeli port city of Haifa on Sunday (July 16), where eight people were killed after a rocket slammed into a railway station.
    Clean-up crews were removing the debris caused by the attack.
    A sign memorialising one of the men killed at the station was already posted on a wall.
    Israeli Finance Minister Abraham Hirchson toured Haifa and was shown where rockets have hit the city.
    "We came here to tell the people how brave they are. They are telling us that they will stand with the government, and they are giving great backing to the government to do the work we have to do," Hirchson said.
    Israeli Government Spokesperson, Miri Eisin said the Israeli government is focused on disabling Hizbollah and its capacity to fight.
    "There's no question that we've damaged many of the rockets. We certainly haven't demolished the rocket capability. We see them still firing the rockets. At this stage along the game, we are continuing to try and attack those different rocket sites, the launchers - those types of things, and especially to make sure that no additional supplies - not of weapons, and not of personnel, will be able to arrive into Lebanon at all into any area," Eisin told Reuters.
    Back in Haifa rescue personnel were still assisting those injured in the rocket attack that partially collapsed a building.
    "The majority of the casualties are suffering from crush injuries due to the situation when the building was collapsing, and some of them are injured in their extremities," a paramedic said.
    The fighting, the worst since Israel invaded Lebanon in 1982, was triggered when Hizbollah, seized two Israeli soldiers in a cross-border raid on northern Israel last week.
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