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10 killed as Israel suffers deadliest rocket attack
Kiryat Shmona, Israel, Aug 6, 2006 The rockets, fired from over the border in south Lebanon, landed on a building near a kibbutz in the town of Kfar Giladi in the Galilee region. "There are 10 killed and 20 wounded of whom one person is in a desperate state," said Eli Bin, the director general of the Magen David Adom, the Israeli equivalent of the Red Cross. The Arabic news channel Al-Jazeera said the 10 killed were reserve soldiers stationed in the area. But the Israeli army did not confirm this. Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, who was holding the weekly cabinet meeting at the time, called the incident "very grave," and vowed that "we will continue fighting as long as it is necessary." The latest attack brings to 43 the number of people killed by rockets since the start of the Lebanon offensive on July 12. Forty-six soldiers have also been killed, most of them in combat. Military ambulances quickly arrived on the scene at Kfar Giladi after the first rockets struck and began removing the dead and injured as further missiles fell, said a spokesman for the Magen David Adom. Israeli television showed footage of injured people being carried on stretchers by soldiers and being evacuated by military helicopter. The bodies of those killed were covered with sheets and laid out alongside each other near the kibbutz's cemetery, reporters at the scene said. A spokeswoman from the kibbutz said the dead were not members of the community. Fires caused by the rockets blazed in several nearby fields as ambulances with sirens blaring came and went from the area. Witnesses said the rockets had slammed into the area in quick succession. The mayor of nearby Kiryat Shmona said his town had also been hit Sunday by dozens of rockets that had left the town covered by a cloud of smoke. According to police spokesman Mickey Rosenfeld, 140 rockets were fired from Lebanon into Israel on Sunday. Twenty-eight of them landed in towns, he said. One salvo was fired at Kfar Giladi shortly after the deadly attack as rescue efforts were under way. Hezbollah militants have fired more than 2,700 missiles at Israel since the start of the conflict, causing about a quarter of a million people to flee south out of rocket range. The missiles landed in the town of Safed and in the occupied Golan Heights, police said, declining to give a number of rockets fired. Last week Olmert assured the nation that the offensive against Hezbollah in Lebanon had significantly weakened the group, which Israel says has been armed and trained by Syria and Iran. But the Shiite militia, which was created after Israel's 1982 invasion of Lebanon, has continued unabated to fire deadly salvos into the Jewish state. Israeli intelligence estimates Hezbollah has around 9,000 missiles while the group's chief Hassan Nasrallah has said it has 12,000, the Jane's Defence Weekly magazine reported in July. Community Email This Article Comment On This Article Related Links
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