Brink of War: Lebanon Launches Retaliatory Assault on Israel
BEIRUT, Lebanon — Lebanese guerillas stepped up the stakes Thursday as it launched missile attacks across Northern Israel and striking two towns, wounding up to seven. Hezbollah said the major port city of Haifa would be targeted next if Israel hit Beirut.
Lebanese guerrillas fired three rockets at the northern Israeli border town of Safed, wounding seven people, one seriously, witnesses and medics said. It was the first attack on the town since the 1990s. Rockets also hit town of Carmiel, also in northern Israel, the army said, but there were no immediate word on casualties.
They were two of dozens of retaliatory attacks by Hezbollah guerrillas on northern Israel in the heaviest cross-border fighting in years. Earlier, a rocket killed an Israeli woman in the border town of Nahariya....
Dr. Alan Cairns | 5/18/2009
