Fear and loathing as rockets reach further into Israel

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Inigo Gilmore, Nahariya and Rory McCarthy, Jerusalem
July 15, 2006

FIRST came the whistling, whooshing noise, then two earth-shuddering bangs. The rockets had landed and people started running in panic.

The loudhailers around Nahariya Hospital erupted. "Go to the bunkers," they barked in Hebrew. A handful of workers, taking a break after helping the wounded from an earlier rocket barrage, rushed back inside as dark smoke swirled through the hospital grounds.

Hezbollah has launched more than 130 Katyusha rockets into northern Israel in two days in one of its largest attacks, the Israeli military said.


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The probable target of the rocket barrage on Majd al-Krum was the neighbouring Jewish town of Karmiel. Both are more than 16 kilometres south of the border, beyond the usual range of Hezbollah attacks. But on Thursday night, the coastal town of Haifa, which is 28 kilometres south of the Lebanese frontier, was hit for the first time.

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But no one in the hospital or Nahariya city had a clear idea of what they wanted the Israeli Government or the military to do. They just wanted the rockets to stop.



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