Train Garage
Terror Attack Place:
Haifa train garage
Commemoration Site:
Haifa
Area:
Haifa Area
Type:
Monument
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On Sunday July 16th, 2006 around 9am, the very beginning of the second Lebanon war, missiles were fired from southern Lebanon to Haifa. The sirens did not work that time. One of the missiles hit the train garage in downtown Haifa.
Eight workers were killed, 23 were wounded.
Near the train garage a memorial was erected in the memory of the eight killed.
The monument is special in two ways, the first, the memorial is built as two missiles stuck at the ground as if trying to freeze the moment that the eight was still alive.
The second special way is that in the process of renovating the garage, the piece of floor that was hit by the missile was cut out and used as the base for the missile with the writing in it. On that base one can see the metal bearings that filled the missile and that cause most of the damage to humans.
