Military operations of the 2006 Lebanon War - Wikipedia the free encyclopedia
Map showing some of the Israeli localities attacked by rockets fired from Lebanese soil as of Monday 7 August.
As part of the Hezbollah rocket campaign that began in July, they have fired rockets into all major cities of northern Israel including
Haifa,
Hadera,
Nazareth,
Nazareth Illit,
Tiberias,
Nahariya,
Safed,
Afula,
[11] Kiryat Shmona,
Beit She'an,
Karmiel, and
Maalot, and dozens of
kibbutzim,
moshavim, and
Druze and
Arab villages, as well as the northern
West Bank.
[12][13] It also hit a hospital in Safed in northern
Galilee on 18 July, wounding 8.
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By August 13, 2006, Hezbollah had fired about 3,900 rockets into Israel during the 34 days of the
2006 Lebanon War, killing 44 Israeli civilians and 106 soldiers including 12 reserve soldiers, and wounding some 1400 civilians.
[15] According to another report a total of 4,228 Hezbollah rockets hit Israel. Of those 972 (23%) landed within built-up areas. The number of longer range rockets (over 50 km) was approximately 250 (or 6% of the total). Israel suffered 53 fatalities, 250 severely wounded and 2,000 lightly wounded, and hundreds of buildings were damaged.
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