Posted on 07/16/2006 3:06:55 PM PDT by Esther Ruth
Majority of Israelis Under Fire as Afula and Nazareth Hit 00:24 Jul 17, '06 / 21 Tammuz 5766 by Ezra HaLevi
Missiles landed in Afula, Upper Nazareth and the environs shortly before midnight Sunday. A majority of Israelis spent the night under threat of missile attack as Tel Aviv prepares for the worst.
From 11 PM until shortly before midnight missiles fell in the communities surrounding Afula and the Jezreel Valley, including Upper Nazareth, Migdal Ha'emek and Givat Ela - the farthest south the missiles have yet reached at 31 miles from the northern border.
Hizbullah chief Hassan Nasrallah's television appearance Sunday afternoon promised attacks on more Israeli cities, prompting a majority of Israel’s citizens to spend the night under threat of missiles.
Residents of Tel Aviv and communities to the north of the city were told on Sunday to “be alert” and that they would have a one-minute warning of any impending rocket attack in which to make their way to a shelter.
Pundits on Israel Radio discussed the ambiguous advice of the Home Front Command to "be alert," opining that they would not advise people to go about their normal business Monday, as residents of Haifa did Sunday - resulting in the deaths of eight workers at a train garage when a missile crashed through the roof.
“We surprised you in Haifa and promise to surprise you far past Haifa,” Nasrallah said in a televised statement.
IDF officials said an air-raid siren will sound in the event of an attack on the area. Anyone who is unable to make it into a shelter is being instructed to move into a stairwell or stand close to a wall. Anyone caught outside and too far from a building was told to lie flat and not to move. The public was told by the Home Front Command that there would be updates and to await further instruction.
A 48-hour emergency status for communities from the Golan across northern Israel to the Galilee was declared on Sunday in the wake of a lethal rocket attack on Haifa that left eight dead in a direct hit on the city’s train station.
Emergency status means that workers in “essential” factories and service industries are required to be “on alert” on the job. Essential industries include pharmacies, banks, refrigeration facilities, food production factories, transportation services and other industries.
The status may be extended by an additional five days by the government and the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee. It will also allow workers in “non-essential” employment to stay home for security reasons and still receive a paycheck from the National Insurance Institute.
Israelis abroad have been warned by the National Security Council’s Counter-Terrorism Unit to refrain from visiting Islamic and Arab countries (aside from Mauritania and the Comoro Islands) and to be wary of accepting “enticing and/or unexpected proposals abroad…gifts and invitations to free vacations from suspect and/or unknown elements.”
The IDF censor has also issued a sharply worded reminder to the multitude of journalists in Israel to cover the war, reminding them that broadcasting the precise location of missile impacts in real-time assists Hizbollah to aim its rockets and violates Israeli law, which requires such matters to be cleared by the military censor. A news team from the Al-Jazeera Arab news network was detained after the organization violated censorship for the first time in the years it has been reporting from Israel.
The chief military censor also said that reports regarding visits of Israeli Government and IDF officials to northern Israel will not be approved until such visits are over, “due to the clear connection between officials' visits and missile attacks on the area in question.”
The visit of Shaul Mofaz, current Minister of Transportation, to Haifa was covered live by all of Israel’s news channels – possibly spurring the reminder.
Published: 19:57 July 16, 2006 Last Update: 00:24 July 17, 2006
Farthest south the missiles have yet reached at 31 miles from the northern border.
Heavenly Father I pray for the peace of Jerusalem and understanding for "all" Israel. May the suffering innocents on both sides be kept from harm and may you bring and end to this conflict soon in Your way. Amen and shalom
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Jul. 16, 2006 22:54 | Updated Jul. 17, 2006 0:26
Rockets hit Afula marking southernmost point of impact
By JPOST.COM STAFF
A barrage of rockets hit the Afula area on Sunday night, which was the southernmost region rockets had reached since the current conflict between Israel and Hizbullah began. Six people suffered from shock.
Afula is located some 45 kilometers southeast of Haifa.
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Minutes earlier, rockets landed in Upper Nazareth and Givat Ela. There were no reports of casualties or damage.
Earlier, 15 IDF troops were lightly wounded on Sunday night when a Katyusha rocket landed in the Shlomi area of the Western Galilee.
The rocket caused a fire and the soldiers suffered from smoke inhalation.
Meanwhile, the names of the eight victims who were killed in the rocket barrage that struck Haifa on Sunday morning were released for publication.
The following people all died when a rocket hit a maintenance depot at the train station: Shlomi Mansora, 35, from Nahariya; Rafi Hazan, 30, from Haifa; Kiryat Ata residents Nissin Elharach, 43, and Reuven Levy, 46; Kiryat Yam residents Asahel Damati, 39, David Feldman, 28, and Dennis Lapidus, 24, and Shmuel Ben Shimon, 41, from Upper Yokne'am.
Just two hours after the fatal attack, a second barrage of rockets landed in Haifa's port area and Nahariya.
A third barrage of rockets hit the Haifa area on Sunday afternoon. Nobody was wounded in the latest attack. Air raid sirens had sounded immediately before the Katyushas hit.
MDA reported on Sunday evening that eight people were killed and 54 people wounded, four seriously, nine moderately, 23 lightly and 18 suffering shock, since Sunday morning in northern Israel.
Since the fighting in the north began, a total of 20 Israelis have been killed including IDF troops.
398 have been wounded - seven seriously, 22 moderately, 142 lightly and 207 have suffered shock.
Can you even imagine the world outcry if Israel or the U.S. shelled the birthplace of Mohammed?
praise Lord and pass the ammunition
bttt
This is becoming ominous.
Ironically, Nazareth is an Arab town. Hizball-less doesn't care who they kill, as long as they kill. They're vampires.
I thought the same thing.
Why do you presume to judge that which you know nothing about. We are all here to be judged, not to judge.
Infant Baptism is a community commitment to raise a child as a Christian. A subsequent First Eucharist and Confirmation are the acts by which one individually rejects sin and accepts God. The actual dipping in the pool is symbolic.
From the article, this is very important!! -
"The IDF censor has also issued a sharply worded reminder to the multitude of journalists in Israel to cover the war, reminding them that broadcasting the precise location of missile impacts in real-time assists Hizbollah to aim its rockets and violates Israeli law, which requires such matters to be cleared by the military censor."
Of course the multitude of journalists won't care for the most part.
Slouching towards Bethlehem
W.B Yeats
Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
When a vast image out of Spritus Mundi
Troubles my sight: somewhere in the sands of the desert.
A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.
The darkness drops again; but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?
This is wisdom. All it takes is one clueless journalist (or active collaborator), and Hizb' has a de-facto forward controller.
So what I am reading here is that while Israel is attacking Hezbollah and military targets the opposition is attacking communities haphazardly just hopig to kill and not caring what they kill. It bears a faint resemblance to when hitler started bombing London and in turn the wrath of the world turned on Berlin and other cities.
Hezbollah sows the wind and shall reap the whirlwind. and Lebanon will reap it with them if they dont make their move.
A news team from the Al-Jazeera Arab news network was detained after the organization violated censorship for the first time in the years it has been reporting from Israel.
It sounds as though the reports of Al jazeera broadcasting video from the heights above Haifa are true...
Mat 3:6 And were baptized of him in Jordan, confessing their sins.
Mar 1:5 And there went out unto him all the land of Judder, and they of Jerusalem, and were all baptized of him in the river of Jordan, confessing their sins.
Mar 16:16 He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned.
Act 2:38 Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.
Act 2:41 Then they that gladly received his word were baptized: and the same day there were added [unto them] about three thousand souls.
Act 8:12 But when they believed Philip preaching the things concerning the kingdom of God, and the name of Jesus Christ, they were baptized, both men and women.
Act 8:13 Then Simon himself believed also: and when he was baptized, he continued with Philip, and wondered, beholding the miracles and signs which were done.
Act 18:8 And Crispus, the chief ruler of the synagogue, believed on the Lord with all his house; and many of the Corinthians hearing believed, and were baptized.
Act 19:4 Then said Paul, John verily baptized with the baptism of repentance, saying unto the people, that they should believe on him which should come after him, that is, on Christ Jesus.
Act 19:5 When they heard [this], they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.
2Timothy 4:3-4 For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.
Natural Law - I don't judge, I study and discern. What was good enough for Peter, Paul and the rest of the apostles is good enough for me. Baptism was never necessary or practiced in the first century church but there is another reason for doing it...$$$$$
Glad you liked the tagline. shalom
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