A fresh Hizbullah rocket barrage killed two people and seriously injured several others in the northern Israeli city of Haifa on Sunday, medics said. The Haaretz newspaper Web site said 10 rockets had hit Israel's third largest city.
Earlier, three Katyusha rockets were fired at the Upper Galilee early Sunday morning. No casualties were reported in the strike. Some 17 israelis were wounded Saturday, two of them seriously, as waves of Katyusha strikes - more than 160 rockets - struck targets across the north of Israel, Haaretz reported.
On Saturday evening, a barrage of rockets landed in Safed, wounding four members of the same family, one of them seriously. Also Saturday evening, rockets hit Nahariya and Carmiel, seriously wounding a Carmiel resident.
Meanwhile, Israeli warplanes struck Sidon early Sunday, targeting a building run by a Shi'ite cleric close to Hizbullah. Also early Sunday, a huge explosion reverberated across Beirut, apparently caused by an Israeli air raid on the capital's southern suburbs.
At least four people were injured in the airstrike that targeted Sidon for the first time since Israel launched its massive military offensive against Lebanon July 12, hospital officials said.
Witnesses said the jets fired two missiles that directly hit the four-story Sayyed al-Zahraa compound in Sidon.
