HEZBOLLAH fired more than 100 rockets into northern Israel early today, with some landing near the city of Haifa, as Israel carried out hundreds of strikes on Lebanon and an all-out war appeared increasingly likely.

Air-raid sirens sounded across northern Israel, sending hundreds of thousands of people scrambling into shelters.

One rocket struck near a residential building in Kiryat Bialik, a town near Haifa, wounding at least three people and setting buildings and cars on fire.