ROCKET STRIKE ON THE WESTERN GALILEE HOSPITAL Norman Loberant MD, Department of Radiology, Western Galilee Hospital [email_address]

ON FRIDAY JULY 28 TH THE WESTERN GALILEE HOSPITAL SUSTAINED A DIRECT HIT BY A KATYUSHA ROCKET

A PARAGRAPH IN THE HAARETZ ONLINE SITE: “….a rocket scored a direct hit on a hospital in Nahariya on Friday, damaging an upper story. The floor in Western Galilee Hospital was empty of patients, who had been moved to an underground shelter at the beginning of the conflict between Israel and Hezbollah guerrillas.”

HERE ARE SOME PICTURES OF THE DAMAGE

THE ROCKET HIT THE OPHTHALMOLOGY DEPARTMENT- PICTURES OF THE INTERIOR:

THESE PICTURES WERE TAKEN BY MY FRIEND AND COLLEAGUE DR. JONATHAN SINGER-JORDAN, DIRECTOR OF INTERVENTIONAL RADIOLOGY

A QUESTION KOFI ANNAN ACCUSED ISRAEL OF DELIBERATELY TARGETING A U.N. POST WHICH WAS JUST YARDS AWAY FROM HIZBOLLAH TERRORISTS LAUCHING ROCKETS AT ISRAEL THE WESTERN GALILEE HOSPITAL IS A MILE FROM CENTRAL NAHARIYA, NOT YARDS AWAY

KOFI ANNAN ACCUSED ISRAEL OF DELIBERATELY TARGETING A U.N. POST WHICH WAS JUST YARDS AWAY FROM HIZBOLLAH TERRORISTS LAUCHING ROCKETS AT ISRAEL

THE WESTERN GALILEE HOSPITAL IS A MILE FROM CENTRAL NAHARIYA, NOT YARDS AWAY

THE TERRORISTS HAVE HAD NO PROBLEM SENDING BARRAGE AFTER BARRAGE OF ROCKETS VERY ACCURATELY INTO CENTRAL NAHARIYA INCLUDING MY NEIGHBORHOOD HERE’S A MAP AFTER ONLY THE FIRST FEW DAYS OF THE WAR (SINCE THEN WE HAVE SUSTAINED MANY MORE DIRECT HITS)

THE TERRORISTS HAVE HAD NO PROBLEM SENDING BARRAGE AFTER BARRAGE OF ROCKETS VERY ACCURATELY INTO CENTRAL NAHARIYA INCLUDING MY NEIGHBORHOOD

HERE’S A MAP AFTER ONLY THE FIRST FEW DAYS OF THE WAR (SINCE THEN WE HAVE SUSTAINED MANY MORE DIRECT HITS)

100 Meters OUR HOME =ROCKET HIT

COULD THE ATTACK HAVE BEEN DELIBERATE??

ARE THERE REALLY PEOPLE CAPABLE OF TARGETING A HOSPITAL? YOU DECIDE...

ARE THERE REALLY PEOPLE CAPABLE OF TARGETING A HOSPITAL?