At least one Israeli was killed in the northern city of Safed this morning and eight injured in a massive missile barrage from Lebanon that reached across a wide swath of northern Israel, according to initial reports from emergency medical teams. Parts of the city were without electricity following the attacks.
Panicked residents and school children rushed to bomb shelters and safe rooms as multiple waves of sirens and explosions were heard beginning at around 10 a.m. on Wednesday in Safed, Meron, and across the Upper Galilee. The Magen David Adom emergency services said that the eight injured—three in moderate condition and one lightly injured —were taken to the Ziv Medical Center in Safed.
At least one building took a direct hit, according to fire and rescue officials. “Firefighters from the Galilee-Golan regional station worked in the last hour to put out a fire in a building in the northern city of Safed as a result of a direct hit by rocket fire from Lebanon,” wrote a spokesperson. “The teams worked to extinguish the fire, search for trapped people, and cut off power sources.”
Safed Residents Call Escape from Lethal Barrage Miraculous
Safed, one of the four holy cities of Israel, has come under attack before from terrorist forces in Lebanon. In 2006, much of the city was evacuated and many of those who stayed behind were holed up in the city’s bomb shelters after four people were killed and hundreds injured in missile attacks.
ארץ אשר תמיד עיני ה’ אלוקיך בה!!!
Keep praying but don’t forget!
what good is that? protecting would be something.
It was actually 9 am, not 10
-chitrik girl
This is so scary! There are so many of our children studying in Tzfat. Why didn’t the iron dome prevent these rockets? We need moshiach now!
This is a good question. I have just read that the Israeli Air Force is investigating your precise question. Iron Dome and the new system which is being rolled out, David’s Sling, have a success rate that exceeds 99%, actually higher than what is generally publicly known as I heard from one former general who disclosed it in a Hebrew interview a year ago. But 99% is still not q00%. If I find more details I will post the information.
I guess this debunks their fake news that ‘only hamas are the terrorists’ and everyone else is an ‘innocent civilian’.
L-O-L.