Border town Sabbath preps, homes of captured soldiers, Haifa

Описание: (14 Jul 2006)

Haifa
1. Various of port
2. Navy submarine
3. View of the town from a hill

Kiryat Motzkin, near Haifa
4. Pan from road to apartment block where the one of the captured soldiers (by Hezbollah) Eldad Regev lives
5. Poster saying "Regev Family, We Are With You"
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Local resident, Vox-Pop:
"Since I heard of the Regev family, I have felt very bad and I am ill."
7. Window of apartment
8. Men talking in the street

Nahariya, northern Israel
9. Various of house of other captured (by Hezbollah) soldier Ehud Goldwasser
10. Exterior of grocery store
11. Challah, type of bread for the Jewish Sabbath
12. Various of people buying food supplies
13. People buying at another supermarket
14. SOUNDBITE: (English) Local resident, Vox-Pop:
"We must be strong, I am here since 1973 and we have passed all those scary things and if we are going to get scared, to show that we are afraid, they'll increase their bombings."
15. Elderly man in wheelchair going into supermarket

STORYLINE

Scores of Hezbollah rockets continued to rain down on northern Israel on Friday, hitting at least five border towns and injuring six people.

The barrage came hours after Hezbollah managed to strike Israel's third largest city, Haifa.

Thursday's attack on Haifa, the deepest target Hezbollah has ever hit in Israel, increased the sense of public insecurity in Israel and put pressure on the military to step up their offensive in Lebanon.

From a base in the port city, the Israeli navy stepped up its naval blockade of its northern neighbour and a submarine was seen in the harbour on Friday.

This latest cross-border violence began on Wednesday when Hezbollah militants captured two Israeli soldiers.

Israel's desire to exact a price for the abduction and the militants' insistence on a prisoner swap in return for their freedom likely means that the captured soldiers - Ehud Goldwasser, 31 and Eldad Regev, 26 - will not be coming home any time soon.

In Regev's home town, Kiryat Motzkin, near Haifa, there was mounting concern for his safety on Friday.

Buildings in the town have been plastered with posters expressing support for the soldier's family and one resident said the crisis had a big impact on the local community.

There was similar concern in Nahariya, home to the other captured soldier and target of several Hezbollah rockets.

But as shoppers there prepared for the Sabbath, one elderly resident said it was important to show the militants Israel was not afraid.

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