Record number of rockets fired at Israel

From The Australian news.com.au network, July 31, 2006, by correspondents in Jerusalem ...

A RECORD 156 rockets were fired at northern Israel today, surpassing the previous record of 151 set on July 26, an army spokesman said.

Five people were wounded according to the army, though the Israeli equivalent of the Red Cross, Magen David Adom, reported 15 wounded.

The barrage constituted the largest number fired in a single day since the beginning of the Israeli military offensive in Lebanon on July 12, the spokesman said.

Some 1800 rockets have been fired at northern Israel since the beginning of an Israeli military offensive in Lebanon on July 12. Eighteen civilians in Israel have been killed and some 300 wounded, police said.