210 rockets so far today, over 100 rockets in one half hour. Yikes!
AP - Israeli police examine a Hezbollah rocket in Maalot, Israel.
Jets drop leaflets in Beirut warning residents of three Shiite neighborhoods to flee | Video | Photo EssayBOURJ AL-MULOUK, Lebanon — Hezbollah rockets fired into northern Israel killed eight civilians on Thursday as four Israeli soldiers were killed in ground operations inside Lebanon in the deadliest day of violence for Israel.
The Israeli casualties came as senior officials said Defense Minister Amir Peretz told top army officers to push ahead to the Litani River to secure an 18-mile buffer zone and leaflets were dropped in Beirut warning residents of three Shiite neighborhoods to flee.
In the town of Acre, three adults and a child were killed when a rocket hit a group of people standing on their balcony, Mayor Shimon Lankry told Israel's Channel 2 Television. In Maalot, three people were killed when a rocket struck a car, police said.
Since the fighting started, 67 Israelis have been killed, 40 of them soldiers slain in fighting and 27 of them civilians killed in rocket attacks.
More than 180 rockets, which cannot be guided like missiles, were fired across the border, with almost 100 of them being launched within one half-hour period, according to Israeli police. The barrage came a day after Hezbollah launched a record 210 rockets into Israel.
Narallah threatens to bomb Tel Aviv (video):
Via ynetnew.com
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