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Northern Israeli Town Picks Up the Pieces


[Toronto Star] Oakland Ross - Welcome to Kiryat Shmona, Israel - the Katyusha capital of the world. Roughly 930 missiles crashed down on the city during the course of this summer's Middle East war. About 350 of them hit something built by humans - a house, a factory, a school, a mall. Some 2,000 private homes were damaged by rockets, either from direct hits or by shrapnel. Three schools were also hit. Some 150 people in Kiryat Shmona were injured during the war - mostly as a result of flying shrapnel - but miraculously none was killed. About 70 percent of the population fled the fighting. The population has returned to its pre-war level, but the community still has an eerie, shell-shocked mood, as if at any moment the air-raid sirens could begin to wail all over again.
2006-08-22 01:00:00
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