As Hezbollah rockets pounded northern Israel Sunday morning, a 17-year-old was killed when the car he was in slammed into the roadside barrier. The driver is presumed to have lost control of the vehicle after rocket sirens sounded.
Magen David Adom (MDA) reported that a call was made to the emergency services at 5:18 a.m. regarding a car that had hit the barrier on route 77 near Yishai junction. “MDA paramedics reported a 17-year-old youth in a car with no signs of life and declared his death, and provided medical treatment on a youth around 20 years old in moderate condition and evacuated him to Rambam hospital,” the emergency services organization said.
More than 100 rockets were fired this morning toward the northern Israeli regions of the Krayot, the Amakim, and the Galilee. Two houses in Kiryat Bialik, a Haifa suburb, were struck, as was a house in Moreshet, a village in the Lower Galilee.
According to MDA, four people were wounded by shrapnel, including a 76-year-old man who was moderately hurt after shrapnel struck his upper body. A 70-year-old, a 60-year-old, and a 16-year-old girl were lightly hurt.
A resident of Kiryat Bialik who was treated at Rambam Hospital together with his granddaughter described the event: “I was at home with my granddaughter. We got to the bomb shelter, and the explosion was so strong that the metal window was displaced. The tempered glass also flew and injured my niece, but it’s clear that if we hadn’t been in the shelter, we would have died. I went outside and saw that there was no house and cars.”
HaEmek hospital in Afula reported that it treated eight individuals who were hurt when running to bomb shelters, including a 7-week-old baby who was injured along with her mother during their rush to the shelter.
A few additional people were lightly injured when running to bomb shelters, and some were treated for anxiety attacks.
A direct hit on a cowshed in Beit Shearim also killed 25 cows.
This article was translated from Hebrew by Leah Schwartz.
