A volley of at least five Katyusha rockets hit downtown Nahariya near a main avenue Thursday morning just after 0700.
One woman, in her 40s, was killed in the strike, and 16 other residents are being treated for wounds.
One rocket slammed through the roof of the victim's top floor apartment, killing her outright and causing damage.
Nahariya is a coastal city several kilometers south of the border with Lebanon.UPDATE: A second barrage hit near a major avenue shortly before 0800. There are reports of wounded in this attack as well.
Officials halted commuter railway traffic to the city, due to the severity of the bombing, and closed one of the cities shopping malls, fearing more attacks. Bomb shelters have been opened, as of 0900, but residents have not been ordered to use them yet, according to the mayor. Dozens of similar attacks are being reported along much of the northern border, including an Air Force bases on Mt. Meron near Zafed and Kiryat Shmoneh in the Galilee panhandle. Kibbutzim , towns and villages throughout the region have also been hit, as some 250,000 northern area residents spent the night in in bomb shelters and security rooms, and remain there, as this report is posted.
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