Traffic was backed up on the tree-lined street outside Elisha Hospital in Haifa Sunday morning. The congestion was the result of too many patients — not trying to enter the hospital, but rather trying to leave it.
All elective surgeries and outpatient clinics at the facility had been canceled amid rocket barrages from Lebanon, as hospitals across northern Israel were instructed to transfer their operations to facilities with extra protection from attacks.
Some 85 rockets were launched by Hezbollah from Lebanon at the Haifa area in northern Israel on Sunday morning, following overnight launches of over 20 more at the Jezreel Valley — the terror group’s deepest rocket fire into Israel since the start of the war in Gaza in October.
A teenager was killed when he crashed his vehicle as sirens sounded in the early hours of the morning, and at least three people were injured as a result of the rocket fire.
Hadi said he and his wife had been kept up most of the night by the rocket sirens.
“Of course, we’re all afraid,” Hadi said. “Hezbollah doesn’t care who it hits.”
The attacks also caused cancellations in other hospitals, including Haifa’s Rambam and Carmel medical centers, Ziv Medical Center in Safed, the Galilee Medical Center in Nahariya, HaEmek Medical Center in Afula, Tzafon Medical Center outside Tiberias, and the Italian and English hospitals in Nazareth.
At the David Yelin School in Haifa, welcome signs were still up for first graders who started school three weeks ago, but the school was shuttered after the Home Front Command instructed all educational institutions in the area to be closed on Sunday and Monday.
The IDF Home Front Command placed restrictions on public activities in northern Israel Saturday night in expectation of Hezbollah attacks, and on Sunday morning announced that schools would be closed in the Golan Heights, Galilee, Haifa bay area, and northern valleys.
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