Jeeze! Thanks for the update.
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/print.php3?what=news&id=107230
Tzfat Struck by 7 Missiles, Hizbullah Says Haifa is Next
Thursday, July 13, 2006 / 17 Tammuz 5766
Katyusha missiles slammed into the Jewish holy city of Tzfat Thursday afternoon, striking a college. Several people were injured as Hizbullah threatened to strike Haifa next.
Seven 122mm Katyusha rockets struck Tzfat (Safed) around 3 PM Wednesday. One landed near a bus stop, one near an absorption center and the other in populated areas as well. At least twenty people are being treated for wounds - one critical, one serious and the rest suffering light injuries from shrapnel.
A rocket also struck the Arab village of Majd al-Krum near Carmiel, which is even further to the south, in the direction of Haifa. Majd al-Krum, has been the subject of arrest and investigations due to support for Hamas and Syria in the village. Two residents were injured moderately. Three were reported lightly injured by the missiles.
The fresh barrage of rockets came just hours after a wave of Katyushas struck a home in the coastal city of Nahariya, killing a Jewish woman and wounding 29 others, including several children. In total, more than 70 rockets have been fired on northern Israeli towns in the last 24 hours.
A Tzfat municipal official named Hevron told Channel 2 that in recent weeks, the faculty of Tzfat College has organized drills requiring students to enter the local bomb shelters. The shelter itself, which doubles as the school’s library, was struck head-on by a missile – but was virtually empty because students were sent home early due to the war situation.
“The Katyusha fell exactly on the bomb shelter and the library,” it was a miracle we weren’t using it at the time,” he said. A three-day klezmer music festival which saw Tzfat packed with tens of thousands of visitors also came to a close less than 40 hours prior to the attack.
Avraham, a caller to Israel National Radio, said he was sitting in his bomb shelter in Tzfat and refused to leave the holy city, despite offers from his son to pick him up and bring him out of range of the rocket-fire. "I left New York for Tzfat because G-d told us this is where we are supposed to live," he said, "I am not going to leave because of some missiles."
Hizbullah chief Hassan Nasrallah, responding to reports that the IDF is preparing to strike south of Beirut, said such a move would result in Hizbullah firing even longer-range missiles at the port-city of Haifa.
Asked about the liklihood of such a scenario, Dr. Dan Scheuftan of the National Security Studies Center at the University of Haifa said, "I estimate that this is indeed a realistic scenario."
Dr. Scheuftan added that plans to strike Haifa existed from the get-go and had nothing to do with the scope of IDF raids in Lebanon. "A clear-cut connection exists between the authorities in the Gaza Strip and the two additional kidnappings of Israeli soldiers in South Lebanon today," he said. "We aren't speaking about a one-time incident. This is an extensive military confrontation that in the final analysis will determine the rules of the game between Israel and elements at war with her, for example, in Lebanon and Syria."