From 11 PM until shortly before midnight missiles fell in the communities surrounding Afula and the Jezreel Valley, including Upper Nazareth, Migdal Ha'emek and Givat Ela - the farthest south the missiles have yet reached at 31 miles from the northern border.
Hizbullah chief Hassan Nasrallah's television appearance Sunday afternoon promised attacks on more Israeli cities, prompting a majority of Israel’s citizens to spend the night under threat of missiles.
Speaking to members of the press on Sunday, Air Force Commander Major-General Eliezer Shkedi spoke of Hizbullah’s diverse arsenal, stating there are “many rockets of various types” in the terror organization’s arsenal.
Israel is not taking Iranian threats lightly, with intelligence community officials well-aware Tehran has invested heavily in Hizbullah’s arsenal, providing many types of rockets for use against Israel sometime in the future. This includes Zelzal missiles, with a range of 200 kilometers (120 miles), quite capable of delivering a blow to the Gush Dan region. Jerusalem knows that if and when Iran gives the word, Iranian experts deployed in Lebanon will attempt to fire such missiles into Israel.
Residents of Tel Aviv and communities to the north of the city were told on Sunday to “be alert” and that they would have a one-minute warning of any impending rocket attack in which to make their way to a shelter.
Pundits on Israel Radio discussed the ambiguous advice of the Home Front Command to "be alert," opining that they would not advise people to go about their normal business Monday, as residents of Haifa did Sunday - resulting in the deaths of eight workers at a train garage when a missile crashed through the roof.
“We surprised you in Haifa and promise to surprise you far past Haifa,” Nasrallah said in a televised statement.
IDF officials said an air-raid siren will sound in the event of an attack on the area. Anyone who is unable to make it into a shelter is being instructed to move into a stairwell or stand close to a wall. Anyone caught outside and too far from a building was told to lie flat and not to move. The public was told by the Home Front Command that there would be updates and to await further instruction.
A 48-hour emergency status for communities from the Golan across northern Israel to the Galilee was declared on Sunday in the wake of a lethal rocket attack on Haifa that left eight dead in a direct hit on the city’s train station.
Emergency status means that workers in “essential” factories and service industries are required to be “on alert” on the job. Essential industries include pharmacies, banks, refrigeration facilities, food production factories, transportation services and other industries.
The status may be extended by an additional five days by the government and the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee. It will also allow workers in “non-essential” employment to stay home for security reasons and still receive a paycheck from the National Insurance Institute.
Israelis abroad have been warned by the National Security Council’s Counter-Terrorism Unit to refrain from visiting Islamic and Arab countries (aside from Mauritania and the Comoro Islands) and to be wary of accepting “enticing and/or unexpected proposals abroad…gifts and invitations to free vacations from suspect and/or unknown elements.”
The IDF censor has also issued a sharply worded reminder to the multitude of journalists in Israel to cover the war, reminding them that broadcasting the precise location of missile impacts in real-time assists Hizbollah to aim its rockets and violates Israeli law, which requires such matters to be cleared by the military censor.
A news team from the Al-Jazeera Arab news network was detained after the organization violated censorship for the first time in the years it has been reporting from Israel.
The chief military censor also said that reports regarding visits of Israeli Government and IDF officials to northern Israel will not be approved until such visits are over, “due to the clear connection between officials' visits and missile attacks on the area in question.”
The visit of Shaul Mofaz, current Minister of Transportation, to Haifa was covered live by all of Israel’s news channels – possibly spurring the reminder. Israelis TV news stations continued to broadcast live images from attack sites Monday, despite the ban.
Hizbullah chief Hassan Nasrallah's television appearance Sunday afternoon promised attacks on more Israeli cities, prompting a majority of Israel’s citizens to spend the night under threat of missiles.
Speaking to members of the press on Sunday, Air Force Commander Major-General Eliezer Shkedi spoke of Hizbullah’s diverse arsenal, stating there are “many rockets of various types” in the terror organization’s arsenal.
Israel is not taking Iranian threats lightly, with intelligence community officials well-aware Tehran has invested heavily in Hizbullah’s arsenal, providing many types of rockets for use against Israel sometime in the future. This includes Zelzal missiles, with a range of 200 kilometers (120 miles), quite capable of delivering a blow to the Gush Dan region. Jerusalem knows that if and when Iran gives the word, Iranian experts deployed in Lebanon will attempt to fire such missiles into Israel.
Residents of Tel Aviv and communities to the north of the city were told on Sunday to “be alert” and that they would have a one-minute warning of any impending rocket attack in which to make their way to a shelter.
Pundits on Israel Radio discussed the ambiguous advice of the Home Front Command to "be alert," opining that they would not advise people to go about their normal business Monday, as residents of Haifa did Sunday - resulting in the deaths of eight workers at a train garage when a missile crashed through the roof.
“We surprised you in Haifa and promise to surprise you far past Haifa,” Nasrallah said in a televised statement.
IDF officials said an air-raid siren will sound in the event of an attack on the area. Anyone who is unable to make it into a shelter is being instructed to move into a stairwell or stand close to a wall. Anyone caught outside and too far from a building was told to lie flat and not to move. The public was told by the Home Front Command that there would be updates and to await further instruction.
A 48-hour emergency status for communities from the Golan across northern Israel to the Galilee was declared on Sunday in the wake of a lethal rocket attack on Haifa that left eight dead in a direct hit on the city’s train station.
Emergency status means that workers in “essential” factories and service industries are required to be “on alert” on the job. Essential industries include pharmacies, banks, refrigeration facilities, food production factories, transportation services and other industries.
The status may be extended by an additional five days by the government and the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee. It will also allow workers in “non-essential” employment to stay home for security reasons and still receive a paycheck from the National Insurance Institute.
Israelis abroad have been warned by the National Security Council’s Counter-Terrorism Unit to refrain from visiting Islamic and Arab countries (aside from Mauritania and the Comoro Islands) and to be wary of accepting “enticing and/or unexpected proposals abroad…gifts and invitations to free vacations from suspect and/or unknown elements.”
The IDF censor has also issued a sharply worded reminder to the multitude of journalists in Israel to cover the war, reminding them that broadcasting the precise location of missile impacts in real-time assists Hizbollah to aim its rockets and violates Israeli law, which requires such matters to be cleared by the military censor.
A news team from the Al-Jazeera Arab news network was detained after the organization violated censorship for the first time in the years it has been reporting from Israel.
The chief military censor also said that reports regarding visits of Israeli Government and IDF officials to northern Israel will not be approved until such visits are over, “due to the clear connection between officials' visits and missile attacks on the area in question.”
The visit of Shaul Mofaz, current Minister of Transportation, to Haifa was covered live by all of Israel’s news channels – possibly spurring the reminder. Israelis TV news stations continued to broadcast live images from attack sites Monday, despite the ban.