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Police and medics wheel a dead Israeli from the site of a rocket attack by Hezbollah guerrillas at the train station in the northern Israeli city of Haifa. (AP)
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| By Israel Insider staff and partners July 16, 2006 |
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Another barrage of rockets hit the Haifa area on Sunday afternoon. Air raid sirens sounded immediately before the Katyushas hit. Nobody was wounded in the latest attack.
After a quiet night in Israel, at least three waves of Katyusha rockets hit the Haifa bay area, including serveral hits on populated areas. MDA reports indicate that there are at least eight deaths and more than 30 injuries.
Most of the fatalities were in a garage of Israel Railaways located near an Israel Electric Corporation installation on Haifa Bay, according to the Magen David Adom director general.
Two salvos of several rockets hit Ahuza, a central residential and business district of Haifa, Haaretz reported. Rockets also landed in the city of Acre and in Nahariya. A rocket also landed in the town of Kiryat Haim located north of Haifa, Channel 2 TV reported.
Channel 10 TV reported rockets hitting the Checkpost business district on the Haifa-Nahyaria highway.
At least four of the missiles that hit the northern Israeli city of Haifa on Sunday were Iranian-produced Fagr missiles, which carry a far larger warhead than those previously fired at Israel.
The attack Sunday marked the first time those missiles were launched at Israel, the security officials said, speaking on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to the media.
Shaul Mofaz, an Israeli Cabinet minister and former army chief of staff, said that the missile that hit a train depot in Haifa came from Syria. Israeli officials had earlier said that the missile was from Iran.
"This is Syrian weaponry," he said as he toured the damaged train depot, hours after the attack.
Israel Radio correspondent Mickey Gurdis complained in a live report of what he termed a major security failure that the Arab news station, Aljazeera, is broadcasting a live television feed of the attacks on Haifa from a camera located at the top of the Carmel mountain in Haifa, enabling the Hezbollah rocket teams to adjust their aim.
A strategic installation on Haifa Bay was hit by another rocket, Channel 10 reported.
More than 1400 rockets have fallen on Israel in the last five days, the Israeli military announced.
The AP contributed to this report.
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