Todays Rocket Count 115
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Last update - 17:39 08/08/2006
Two people wounded when rocket slams into Galilee village
By Haaretz Service
Hezbollah gunners fired at least 115 Katyusha rockets into northern Israel on Tuesday.
Two people were wounded, one moderately and one lightly, when a rocket hit a home in the Western Galilee town of Fasouta on Tuesday afternoon.
At least 20 rockets slammed into the hard-hit Upper Galilee town of Kiryat Shmona earlier Tuesday, causing damages to structures and starting a number of fires.
Also on Tuesday, four rockets landed in open fields in the northern region of the Golan Heights. No casualties were reported as a result of the rocket fire.
Three rockets were fired at Ma'alot, one of which hit a residential building, and two rockets landed in open areas in Acre. No injuries were reported in the rocket strikes.
A number of residents were treated, one of them a pregnant woman, Channel 2 television reported.
Rockets also fell in open areas near Tiberias and Nahariya, causing neither damage nor injuries.
Residents of a wide area of the Galilee were ordered into bomb shelters prior to the baraages.
The mid-morning attack was the first since more than 160 Katyushas were fired at communities in the north on Monday. More than 70 of them landed in and around Kiryat Shmona, with the remainder falling on Rosh Pina, Safed, Ma'alot and Acre.
One person sustained light to moderate injuries and 16 were slightly wounded. According to the Health Ministry, 152 civilians and soldiers remained in hospitals throughout the north last night, recovering from war-related injuries.
Of these, 17 were in critical condition and 30 were in moderate condition. Officials at the Western Galilee Hospital in Nahariya on Monday reported an improvement in the condition of the soldier who was critically wounded on Sunday in battles in southwestern Lebanon.
A senior Home Front Command (HFC) officer emphasized on Monday the importance of obeying all HFC directives, which he said are life-saving. He said that all of the serious civilian injuries and deaths as a result of rockets have been to individuals who were not in protected spaces.
Can't you just smell victory in the air, after 29 days of fighting Israel is still getting hammered by rockets?
Hizballah has not been put out of business and Syria still supplies them with new rockets and other military supplies. It is no longer with truck convoys like at the start of the war , no today it is by donkey trains going across the hills.
Do I need to say it again? Israel needs to hit Syria and also increase the number of soldiers in Lebanon by at least 3 times.
