It was an unbearably grim day: two dead, and at least six civilians wounded, several seriously, in a massive Hezbollah rocket barrage across northern Israel.
In the salvo fired at northern Kiryat Shmona in the Galilee Paanhandle, IDF officials are checking why Iron Dome batteries didn't fire to thwart the incoming rockets, which struck and killed a couple out walking their dogs, and that hit six apartment buildings.
Dvir Sharvit, 43, and Revital Yehud, 45.
"MDA EMT Aviad Hertz: 'As soon as we received the report of casualties from the rocket strike, we headed in large numbers to the sites where calls were received. At one of the scenes, we found a man and a woman, about 40 years old, unconscious with shrapnel wounds. We performed medical assessments, but their injuries were critical, and we had to pronounce them deceased on the scene.'"
While the city of 22k was mostly voluntarily evacuated at the outset of the war, many have remained, mainly for business reasons, and residents of scores of non-evacuated villages, kibbutzim, and moshavim in the region continue to rely on the city's commercial areas.
In a similar volley aimed at the coastal area from Haifa to Caesaria, Iron Dome interceptors downed several rockets, but several of the incoming munitions hit roads, wounded a driver, and several others, including a man in Shlomi along the border in the western Galilee, according to Army radio.
Later in the afternoon, Iron Dome interceptors downed close to 100 rockets fired at Tzfat and the vicinity; one incoming rocket hit an apartment near a park and shopping center, but without (initial) reports of physical injuries. Nearby Rosh Pina and many other nearby civilian areas also came under heavy salvos.
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