Hezbollah 'fired 97 rockets'
2006-08-09 14:07
Jerusalem - Hezbollah guerrillas fired nearly 100 rockets at Israeli towns on Wednesday, including several medium-range missiles that landed near the West Bank town of Jenin and south of the Israeli city of Afula, police said.
By mid-afternoon, the guerrillas fired 97 rockets, but caused no casualties, said police spokesperson Micky Rosenfeld.
Five of the rockets landed near a Palestinian town in the West Bank on Wednesday, Palestinian security officials said. There were no casualties.
The rockets landed near the village of Arabani, on the Israel-West Bank frontier, the officials said.
Clouds of smoke from the rockets could be seen 20 kilometres away in the town of Jenin, witnesses said.
Since Israeli-Hezbollah fighting erupted on July 12, several of the highly inaccurate Hezbollah rockets have landed in the West Bank.
No Palestinians have been injured.
- AP