Throughout the morning, warning sirens were heard in towns all over the North, as rockets landed in Kiryat Shmona, Tiberias, Safed, Nahariya, and towns in the upper Galilee, among others. The Home Front Command urged residents to enter shelters or inner rooms in their homes.
The latest rocket barrages followed Sunday evening's devastating attack on Haifa, in which a woman and two men were killed and at least 189 people were wounded by a massive barrage of rockets that struck at least six sites in a crowded residential area.
Two were critically wounded and died of their wounds shortly after. Several others were listed in serious condition. All of the wounded were evacuated to local hospitals within some 30 minutes.
Two of the victims, Hanna Hamam, 62, and Labiba Mazawi, 67, both Haifa residents, will be laid to rest in the Christian section of the Haifa cemetery; the funeral procession will leave from the downtown Catholic church at 5 p.m..
The third victim, Roni Rubinski, 30, from Kiryat Motzkin, will be laid to rest at 2 p.m. in the Tel Regev cemetery, Israel Radio reported.
One building sustained a direct hit and collapsed, trapping dozens of people inside. Emergency workers labored to extract the victims.
The incident was defined a high-casualty event. This was the first time such a definition was applied to an attack on Israel since rockets started landing in Israel almost four weeks ago.
The rockets were seen to have been launched from Tyre.
The barrage resumed after a lull of a few hours since the 