Just a couple of comments about your points, from someone who lived (and still lives) in Haifa during the war: 2. I'm not sure how many katyushas would qualify as a barrage, but very rarely, if ever, was there just a single katyusha at a time fired on Haifa. Many times I would count the sounds of five, six, seven, even 12 missiles falling. 4. I was in the far north in March, and I could see a Hezbollah flag close to the Lebanese border.