Israel suffers deadliest attack as rockets kill 15

HEZBOLLAH guerrillas unleashed their deadliest rocket attack on northern Israel yesterday, killing 12 reserve soldiers with a single missile at this kibbutz and killing at least three people and wounding dozens more with a barrage against Haifa.

Israel then attacked the Lebanese town of Qana, with the army saying it destroyed the launchers that fired the rockets against Haifa as fighting intensified despite a drive at the UN to pass a ceasefire resolution.

Jet fighters also demolished a second launching site north of the Lebanese coastal city of Tyre, from which more missiles were launched toward Haifa, said army spokesman Jacob Dallal.