Rocket Attacks Continue

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Sun Jul 23, 2006 at 1:06 pm PDT • Views: 303

Hizballah terror rockets packed with ball bearings and jagged pieces of metal to maximize civilian casualties continue to bombard Haifa.

HAIFA, Israel - One Hezbollah rocket slammed into a major road in this Israeli port city, spraying a car with shrapnel and causing a fatal crash. Another blew open an apartment building filled with the elderly and their Filipino caretakers.

The Islamic guerrilla group’s rocket barrage against Israel has shown no sign of subsiding. That was clear Sunday in Haifa, the country’s third-largest city, when 10 rockets exploded, killing two people and wounding more than a dozen. In all, about 90 Hezbollah rockets hit towns and cities across northern Israel on Sunday. A similar number has fallen in the region nearly every day since Israel began its offensive in Lebanon on July 12 after Hezbollah guerrillas captured two Israeli soldiers in a cross-border raid.

Haifa residents had just returned to work Sunday — a normal working day in Israel — for the first time since a Hezbollah rocket attack killed eight people here last week. Officials said residents could go to work if their workplace had a secure bomb shelter.

Rockets hit the city of 250,000 people at about 11 a.m. One hit a major road, spraying a car with shrapnel and wounding the driver, who then crashed into a guardrail and died, police said. TV footage showed a white car with its hood smashed in and its windshield and driver’s side door peppered with holes.

Another rocket slammed into a vacant apartment in a six-story building housing many elderly people, sending black smoke billowing off the roof. The blast blew open the door of the fifth-floor apartment where Dolly Marom, 40, was living with her 12- and 13-year-old children, who burst out crying.

“It could kill us and that’s it, and we did nothing to anyone,” she said. “They’re talking about the bombing in Beirut, they should see what happened in my house.”

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