ISRAEL: GUERRILLAS IN LEBANON FIRE KATYUSHA ROCKETS INTO ISRAEL'S NORTHERN GALILEE REGION

Record ID: 398911

  • Title: ISRAEL: GUERRILLAS IN LEBANON FIRE KATYUSHA ROCKETS INTO ISRAEL'S NORTHERN GALILEE REGION
  • Date: 18th May 1999
  • Summary: KIRYAT SHMONA, NORTHERN ISRAEL (MAY 18, 1999)(REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 1. FIRE ON THE HILLSIDE AFTER ATTACK BY KAYUSHA ROCKETS 2. SLV EMERGENCY CAR DRIVING PAST 0.36 3. SV BOMB SHELTER 0.40 4. SV PANICKED PEOPLE IN BOMB SHELTER 0.59 5. CU REMAINS OF ROCKET 1.09 6. SV DAMAGE TO HOUSES (6 SHOTS) 1.55 7. CU REMAINS OF RO
  • Embargoed: 2nd June 1999 13:00
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  • Location: KIRYAT SHMONA, ISRAEL
  • Country: Israel
  • Reuters ID: LVA2VULMC3513Q8BGZHK9C1JR2TW
  • Story Text: Guerrillas in Lebanon have fired Katyusha rockets into
    Israel's northern Galilee region, hours
    after Israelis elected a new prime minister.

    Buildings were damaged in the border town of Kiryat
    Shmona in the attack on Tuesday (May 18).

    Katyusha rockets were reported to have been used in the
    attack.Dozens of residents of northern Israel moved to bomb
    shelters.

    Guerrillas in the Shi'ite Moslem Party of God, Hizbollah,
    are fighting a war of attrition with Israeli soldiers at the
    border.

    Israel says the zone aims to prevent guerrilla attacks on
    its border communities.
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