Meanwhile, Hizbollah fired more than two hundred rockets into northern Israel Thursday. Eight Israeli civilians were killed. Another four Israeli soldiers died inside Lebanon, making it Israel’s worst day of casualties since launching the attack on Lebanon last month. Wounded civilians crowded the hospital in the northern city of Nahariya.

• Nahariya Hospital Deputy Director Dr. Moshe Daniel: “This is the first time that we have admitted such heavy disaster that we have so many dead and so many people injured so badly.”