Roughly 45,000 people live in Kiryat Bialik, a community with tangerine trees heavy with fruit in the northern suburbs of Haifa, Israel's third largest city. Residents there were feeling vulnerable even before Sunday's strike as the back-and-forth attacks escalated recently between Hezbollah fighters and the Israeli military.
I had a bad feeling that the next step would be rocket fire deeper than what we have seen up until now, said Yana Klibaner, 40, a tourism adviser, who lives on the street where the missile hit.
Because of the warning sirens, most residents managed to reach underground shelters or safe rooms and only three people required hospital treatment, according to a spokesman for Rambam Hospital in Haifa.
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