Some 50 rockets rake entire Galilee region in heavy 90-minute Hizballah barrage down to and including Haifa in the south Tuesday evening

Some 50 rockets rake entire Galilee region in heavy 90-minute Hizballah barrage down to and including Haifa in the south Tuesday evening. Twenty-nine civilians injured in entire region, one man killed in Nahariya as he entered a shelter

July 18, 2006, 7:29 PM (GMT+02:00)

Earlier waves of Hizballah rockets hit major city of Haifa, Nahariya, and Safed Tuesday afternoon. Tiberias and Shlomi were also struck. They ignited fires and caused substantial damage. Monday night also saw a massive barrage of Hizballah rockets exploding in Haifa and across Galilee Safed, damaging local hospital. Carmiel, Kiryat Metula, Rosh Pina, Tivon, Kiryat Shemona. Earlier Monday, 11 of Haifa`s citizens were injured by a direct rocket hit to their 4 storey-residential building. Sunday, the first rocket attack from Lebanon killed 8 Israeli civilians at a railway depot Sunday More than 200 Hizballah rockets had landed in northern Israel by Tuesday morning. One third of Israel is now a warfront. Thousands of refugees have gone south out of harm’s way. Central Israeli towns, kibbutzim and moshavim have opened their homes to host refugees. More than a million civilians with many children are incarcerated in bomb shelters after a week of Hizballah rocket fire. As a result, civilian casualties have been kept down to 12 dead. Israel’s third largest city Haifa is a ghost town, its key port shut down and universities closed. Businesses, shops and summer schools are shut; factories and farms have suffered heavy damage. The tourist season at its peak is disrupted. Emergency teams and police are working overtime.