August 7, 2006

Deadly weekend in Israel

Aug 7: An IDF paratrooper was killed and three wounded in fighting in Bint Jbeil. Earlier, an officer and two soldiers were wounded in battle near the village of Houla. At least 14 Hizbullah terrorists killed.

 

Above: Direct hit on apartment building in the mixed Jewish-Arab neighborhood of Wadi Nisnas in Haifa - Aug 6, 2006 (Photo: Reuters)

Engineering Corps and infantry units destroyed a Hizbullah headquarters in southwestern Lebanon, revealing stashes of rockets and antitank missiles.

Aug 6: Twelve IDF paratroop reservists were killed at noon on Sunday and 12 wounded by a Katyusha rocket near Kibbutz Kfar Giladi, north of Kiryat Shmona.

- Three people were killed and close to 200 wounded Sunday evening when rockets struck at seven residential locations in Haifa. Dr. Tamara Lucca, 84, died of a heart attack at hearing the rockets near her home.