Woman killed in Katyusha attack on Nahariya

From Ynet News 13/7/06, by Hanan Greenberg ...

Several rocket barrages hit northern city early Thursday; 40-year-old woman killed, five injured, one of them sustaining serious wounds. At least 20 people killed on Lebanese side of border in dozens of air strikes, one of them on Beirut's international airport

... While northern Israel residents spent the night in shelters, several barrages of Katyusha rockets were fired at the center of the northern city of Nahariya Thursday morning. A 40-year-old woman was killed after being hit by a rocket. Five other residents were injured, one of them sustaining serious wounds and the rest sustaining light wounds. They were evacuated to the city's hospital.

Kiryat Shmona was also hit by fire Thursday morning, and a 60-year-old resident of the village of Zarit was lightly wounded by shrapnel of a Katyusha rocket that landed not far from him.

The Israel Air Force on Wednesday night struck at least 40 targets in different places across Lebanon, including bridges and infrastructures along the Litani and Wazzani rivers. Early Thursday, the IAF struck a runway in Beirut's international airport, where masses of tourists have been passing every day in recent years on their way to Lebanon's vacation sites. The airport was closed "until further notice."

According to Lebanese sources, at least 20 people were killed in the strikes and scores were injured.

The Israeli operation in Lebanon kicked into high gear following decisions made by the government , which convened Wednesday night for an emergency meeting in light of the serious escalation on the northern border, which joins the ongoing operation in the Gaza Strip.

Jerusalem sees Lebanon as responsible for the "warlike act," as Prime Minister Ehud Olmert put it, and has asked to claim a heavy price from Hizbullah to make it "regret the moment," according to Defense Minister Amir Peretz.

The IDF soldiers killed in Lebanon on Wednesday are:

First Sergeant Wissam Nazal, 27, from Jat-Yanuch
Staff Sergeant Eyal Banin, 22, from Beer Sheva
Sergeant First Class Shani Turgeman, 24, from Beit Shean
Sergeant Nimrod Cohen 19, from Mitzpeh Shalem
First Sergeant Alexei Kushnirsky, 21, from Nes Tziona
Sergeant Yaniv Baron, 19, from Macabbim
Sergeant Shlomi Yirmiyahu, 20, from Rishon Letzion
Sergeant Gadi Musayeb, 20, from Akko

The names of the kidnapped soldiers were still not cleared for publication.

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