Hezbollah targeted several cities with rocket attacks, the Jerusalem Post reports nine dead in Haifa. It was a major turning point when Hezbollah struck Haifa the first time. Israel is not softening its rhetoric in the face of the latest attacks. There are also gas and oil installations under threat.
The death toll in Sunday morning's Katyusha attack on Haifa, Acre and Nahariya rose to nine as the Hizbullah continued to fire rockets at Israel's northern cities,
The rockets landed near an oil refinery, gas storage tanks and the train station, Israeli police and emergency officials said.
Some 30 people were wounded.
Olmert said the attack will have "far reaching consequences".
Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said Sunday that there would be "far-reaching consequences" for a rocket attack launched by Lebanese guerillas on the city of Haifa that killed eight people and wounded dozens of others.
The rockets are said to be Fajar rockets, more threatening than the Katyusha. Four more have landed in Haifa as I am typing.
IDF sources revealed that the seven rockets that landed in Haifa on Sunday morning were Fajar rockets, and not Katyushas. The Fajar rockets have a range of around 40 kilometers and carry more explosive material than Katyusha rockets.
It has also been confirmed that Israel did dispatch Naval Commandos onto the beaches of Lebanon over the weekend, obviously for close in operations and likely targeting. No further details available on that score.
Ahmadinejad is still talking tough and one report indicated he compared the Israel's Olmert to Hitler. Of course, as he has previously denied the holocaust, it's a bit hard to figure out just what the idiot means.
"Despite the barbaric and criminal nature of the occupiers of Jerusalem, the regime and its Western supporters do not even have the power to give Iran a nasty look," the agency quoted Ahmadinejad as saying in Osku, in northwestern Iran.
Israel has been bombing Beirut almost non-stop.
BEIRUT -- Waves of planes thundering through the darkness bombed Beirut's southern suburbs for hours early today, a day after Israel stepped up its air strikes and tightened a noose around reeling Lebanon.
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