Sunday, August 06, 2006

Twelve Israeli army reservists killed Sunday by a single Hizballah rocket outside Kibbutz Kfar Gileadi near Kiryat Shemona

Twelve Israeli army reservists killed Sunday by a single Hizballah rocket outside Kibbutz Kfar Gileadi near Kiryat Shemona

August 6, 2006, 11:04 PM (GMT+02:00)

Doctors are fighting for the lives of another soldier. Of the 13 hospitalized from same incident, five are still in serious condition. More than 170 rockets were fired Sunday, most in the Kiryat Shemona region of the Galilee panhandle. Defense minister Amir Peretz canceled his meeting Sunday with the visiting US official David Welch. A group of soldiers had gathered at the entrance to the kibbutz when the rocket struck. Seven rockets started fires in Nahariya in the west. Rockets continue to fall on Kiryat Shemona as well as Safed, Rosh Pinah, Shlomi, Carmiel and Golan. A factory was damaged in Katsrin. The Haifa region, Carmiel Maalot, Kfar Veradim and Rosh Pinah and dozens of towns and villages across northern Israel ordered to stay under cover in shelters.

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