A flare-up of violence in the Middle East

ISRAELIS FLOCKED TO the cool green woods of the Galilee on April 6th, the first full day of the Passover festival. But at 2:30pm white streaks and puffs of smoke filled the sky, as a barrage of 34 rockets launched from Lebanon began falling in the biggest such attack on northern Israel since the second Lebanon war, almost 17 years ago. Most were intercepted by the Iron Dome missile-defence system. Three Israelis were lightly wounded.