Posted on 08/06/2006 3:08:28 AM PDT by Challenge
At least 10 Israeli civilians killed by rocket attack near Kiryat ShmonaGAMLA: News and Views from Israel At least ten people have been killed by a rocket barrage on Kiryat Shmona. According to Magen David Adom, four other civilians are mortally wounded. An initial report by Magen David Adom says the rockets directly struck a group of civilians.
Galilee District Police Commander Danny Hadad said: "This is a very serious incident. There are many casualties on the scene."
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Nablus: Palestinians celebrate killings of Israelis by Hizbullah rockets
Celebratory car horns and celebration marches have been held in Nablus, where cars drove in convoys to express glee over Hizbullah rocket attack in which at least ten Israelis were killed. Cars with photographs of Hassan Nasrallah drove past with Hizbullah flags.
This should be in breaking news.
BTTT
Where is NBC, CBS ABC with this?????
These are Jews killed. There is little propaganda value from Israeli deaths. Only arab muslim deaths matter. Ask the m.s.m they'll tell ya so.
(I've driven that highway, very nice)
Has the Drive-by media gotten Mel Gibson's reaction to this report?
Multiple rockets in a barrage indicate no aiming error; the attack on the civilians was deliberate - in direct contravention of the Geneva Conventions. Any word from Kofi Annan about that?Why do I hear crickets?
Tactic still OK ?
By Luke Baker
KIRYAT SHMONA, Israel, Aug 4 (Reuters) - Two days ago, two dozen buses turned up in this town in the far north of Israel, just across the border from Lebanon, and carted away another 1,200 people.
The buses took the passengers -- mostly the elderly, women and children -- nearly 500 km (300 miles) south to the Red Sea resort of Eilat, the furthest point you can get from Kiryat Shmona without leaving Israel.
It was not the first convoy to leave, and residents of this tourist town, which has been hit by more than 400 Hizbollah rockets in the past three weeks, say it won't be the last.
The exodus has literally drained the life from Kiryat Shmona, normally a peaceful place of around 25,000 people nestled up against the hills of western Galilee. Residents say up to 80 percent of the population has now fled.
"It's terrible, just terrible," said Ludmilla Antonchenko, 30, the manager of a local supermarket who has stayed behind to keep the store open even though very few people come.
"If this goes on for another month, you can forget about the city, it will die. People won't come back," she said.
"Those who have children don't want to live like this, with this constant fear. They want to move elsewhere."
Driving through Kiryat Shmona, one would almost think it had been evacuated following a nuclear scare. There is hardly a soul on the streets, rubbish blows down the main roads and collects in empty corners, the traffic lights solemnly blink orange.
Rather than 20 percent of the population still being around, one could be forgiven for thinking everyone had fled because those who remain spend their days underground in bunkers.
Kiryat Shmona, less than three kilometres (two miles) from the Lebanese border, is perhaps one of the most abandoned of northern Israel's towns and cities, but there are many others like it.
A drive south to the Sea of Galilee, past the Mount of Beatitudes and Tiberias, normally a hectic Holy Land favourite at this time of year, reveals barely a car on the road.
About 1.5 million Israelis live in range of Hizbollah's rockets and tens of thousands have moved away. At least 26 civilians in the north have been killed and hundreds wounded by the 2,000 rockets Hizbollah has fired.
"DEAD TOWN"
By comparison, Lebanese authorities estimate that a quarter of the country's population, or around 900,000 people, have been forced to flee Israel's sustained bombardment of southern Lebanon and targets around Beirut in the past three weeks.
Around 700 Lebanese, the vast majority of them civilians, have been killed in those bombardments, and around 3,000 have been wounded, the authorities there say.
One person who has stayed behind in Kiryat Shmona is Shimon Abitbul, the head of the local Magen David Adom ambulance service. His team has handled anywhere up to 75 calls a day in and around Kiryat Shmona in the past three weeks, he says.
"It's been busy, it's constant," said the 47-year-old, who celebrated his birthday the day the conflict started, July 12.
"Thankfully no one here has been killed, but we've had more than 150 injured. The biggest impact though is the psychological one, people are really scared," he said.
At the mall just outside Kiryat Shmona, where Israeli and foreign tourists come in summer for the clean mountain air and to do sports like river rafting, all the shops are shuttered apart from the pharmacy and the supermarket.
The tables and chairs at the coffee shop in the middle of the mall are overturned, as if abandoned in a mad rush. The other shopping centre in town was hit by a Katyusha rocket.
"There's nothing, it's dead," said Wesam Marie, 25, the security guard at the mall, who doesn't really have anything to secure or guard. "I've never seen anything like it."
now, if we were like the Hizbollah, we would tie our civilians up outside hoping a missle would fall on them....
Muzzies will be dancing in the streets over this
It turns out that the Katusha fell among a group of soldiers.... ......
Not good!!
Ludmilla Antonchenko, 30,===
Russian name.
But anyways Israel leads in killing in far. About 1000+ dead lebanises vs about 50+ Israelites. 20 lebaneses for 1 israelite.
When are we going to stop this at the source? If it doesn't start before we get a democratic president we might as well get on our knees and face Mecca!
So what would you comments be if there where 1000+ dead Israelis?
What was the kill ratio when Russia leveled Grozney?
Outrage? Why should anyone care because Israeli's die? The only innocents are Hezbollah and pals. Everybody knows that. Gee, read the NYTimes, watch CNN.
What was the kill ratio when Russia leveled Grozney?==
I think same:).
"Tactic still OK ?"
Which tactic ? Hezbollah seek to kill as many Jews as possible using Katyusha rockets.
Israel is trying to destroy Hezbollah so it no longer threatens the people of Israel. There is absolutely no comparison between two, so quit this moral equivalency game.
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