The names of the victims have not yet been released, but families have been informed.
The reservists were killed by a rocket that was part of a massive barrage that hit the north at noontime on Sunday, while they were sitting outside the Kfar Giladi cemetery. Two of the 12 died of their wounds after arriving at Sieff Hospital in Tzfat. Three more were critically injured and a fourth was listed in moderate condition. Six suffered light wounds.
Heavy damage was caused to the area, and two cars could be seen burning on television footage two hours after the rocket hit.
“This shouldn’t have happened,” said a resident of Kfar Giladi. “We sounded the alert before the rocket hit.” However, another resident added that the group, which had gathered in the open area, had nowhere to run when the alert was sounded.
"We had no place to hide. I saw Katyushas hitting cars and people shouting. Within four to five minutes paramedics arrived to rescue them," said 30-year-old reservist Dimitri Lipovsky. He said he and his comrades were standing under a tree when the siren sounded.
The Homefront Command continued to emphasize, via the media, the importance of remaining in protected areas. The warning was reiterated on Sunday evening, when a rocket barrage that slammed into Haifa left three dead and at least 100 injured.
Aftert the Kfar Giladi attack, Hizbullah's Al-Manar television station broadcast a special bulletin, with the announcement, "Today is one of achievements. The enemy has admitted to having dead and wounded following landing of the resistance rockets. The enemy's television pictures show the great blow and panic. There are cases of collapsed nerves and hysteria on their part. They never expected a great blow such as this by our resistance rockets."
In Shechem (Nablus), the largest Palestinian Authority-controlled city in the Shomron, dozens of cars set off in a joyous convoy, honking and flaunting pictures of Hizbullah leader arch-terrorist Sheikh Nasrallah. Chants for rockets on Tel Aviv were heard, according to the Ynet news service. Candy was distributed in the Gaza Strip.
Five soldiers were killed over the weekend: In a pre-dawn battle Friday morning in Markabeh in southern Lebanon, three soldiers fell: Capt. Igor Rotshtein, 34, of Moshav Poriyah N'vei Oved near Tiberias, Staff Sgt. Daniel Shiran, 20, from Haifa, and Staff Sgt. Omri Almakayis (Yakobitvich), 20, of Ramle. At least seven terrorists were killed in the battle.
Later on Friday, Sgt. Ohr Shachar, 20, of Kibbutz Yad Mordechai, was killed when a mortar shell hit his tank in the eastern sector of Lebanon, north of Misgav Am. Yesterday (Saturday) afternoon, Pvt. Kyril Kashdan, 26, from Haifa, was killed in an exchange of fire in Ita a-Sha'b. Some 40 terrorists have been killed so far in the eastern sector.
An IDF force operating in the area discovered an unexploded 120-mm mortar, aimed at Israel, with 100 mortar shells alongside it.
Four civilians were killed in Katyusha attacks on Friday, including a man from Sh'ar Yashuv, a woman from the Druze village of Mrar, and two men from the Arab town of Majdal Krum.
Four more were killed on the Sabbath: An 85-year-old woman from Kiryat Ata, north of Haifa, who ran to a shelter during a Katyusha siren, suffered a fatal heart attack upon her return home. In addition, three Arab women - a mother and two grown daughters - were killed when a Katyusha scored a direct hit on their home in Areb al-Aramsha, on the Lebanese border, 10 kilometers east of the Mediterranean Sea.
The reservists were killed by a rocket that was part of a massive barrage that hit the north at noontime on Sunday, while they were sitting outside the Kfar Giladi cemetery. Two of the 12 died of their wounds after arriving at Sieff Hospital in Tzfat. Three more were critically injured and a fourth was listed in moderate condition. Six suffered light wounds.
Heavy damage was caused to the area, and two cars could be seen burning on television footage two hours after the rocket hit.
“This shouldn’t have happened,” said a resident of Kfar Giladi. “We sounded the alert before the rocket hit.” However, another resident added that the group, which had gathered in the open area, had nowhere to run when the alert was sounded.
"We had no place to hide. I saw Katyushas hitting cars and people shouting. Within four to five minutes paramedics arrived to rescue them," said 30-year-old reservist Dimitri Lipovsky. He said he and his comrades were standing under a tree when the siren sounded.
The Homefront Command continued to emphasize, via the media, the importance of remaining in protected areas. The warning was reiterated on Sunday evening, when a rocket barrage that slammed into Haifa left three dead and at least 100 injured.
Aftert the Kfar Giladi attack, Hizbullah's Al-Manar television station broadcast a special bulletin, with the announcement, "Today is one of achievements. The enemy has admitted to having dead and wounded following landing of the resistance rockets. The enemy's television pictures show the great blow and panic. There are cases of collapsed nerves and hysteria on their part. They never expected a great blow such as this by our resistance rockets."
In Shechem (Nablus), the largest Palestinian Authority-controlled city in the Shomron, dozens of cars set off in a joyous convoy, honking and flaunting pictures of Hizbullah leader arch-terrorist Sheikh Nasrallah. Chants for rockets on Tel Aviv were heard, according to the Ynet news service. Candy was distributed in the Gaza Strip.
Five soldiers were killed over the weekend: In a pre-dawn battle Friday morning in Markabeh in southern Lebanon, three soldiers fell: Capt. Igor Rotshtein, 34, of Moshav Poriyah N'vei Oved near Tiberias, Staff Sgt. Daniel Shiran, 20, from Haifa, and Staff Sgt. Omri Almakayis (Yakobitvich), 20, of Ramle. At least seven terrorists were killed in the battle.
Later on Friday, Sgt. Ohr Shachar, 20, of Kibbutz Yad Mordechai, was killed when a mortar shell hit his tank in the eastern sector of Lebanon, north of Misgav Am. Yesterday (Saturday) afternoon, Pvt. Kyril Kashdan, 26, from Haifa, was killed in an exchange of fire in Ita a-Sha'b. Some 40 terrorists have been killed so far in the eastern sector.
An IDF force operating in the area discovered an unexploded 120-mm mortar, aimed at Israel, with 100 mortar shells alongside it.
Four civilians were killed in Katyusha attacks on Friday, including a man from Sh'ar Yashuv, a woman from the Druze village of Mrar, and two men from the Arab town of Majdal Krum.
Four more were killed on the Sabbath: An 85-year-old woman from Kiryat Ata, north of Haifa, who ran to a shelter during a Katyusha siren, suffered a fatal heart attack upon her return home. In addition, three Arab women - a mother and two grown daughters - were killed when a Katyusha scored a direct hit on their home in Areb al-Aramsha, on the Lebanese border, 10 kilometers east of the Mediterranean Sea.