Despite the declaration of an impending cease-fire, Hizbullah stepped up its rocket attacks on Sunday, firing at least 250 Katyushas and long-range rockets at northern towns and villages - the most fired in any one day since the fighting began over a month ago.
Several rocket barrages hit Haifa and its suburbs Sunday evening, damaging a number of buildings and cars. Some 30 people were lightly wounded.
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An 83-year-old man, Madi Hayat, of Ya'ara, was killed and another person was moderately wounded after a rocket scored a direct hit on a house in the Shlomi area.
