On August 6 a fatal rocket volley was fired from southern Lebanon at Kibbutz Cfar Giladi. One rocket landed not far from the statue of the roaring lion, at a spot where soldiers from a reserve paratrooper brigade were gathered who had been mobilized that same morning, and twelve of the soldiers were killed. A few hours later a rocket landed in the bedroom of Yaniv Bornstein, a 21-year-old soldier who had come home on leave. He found that the wall of his room was shattered but his bookcase remained intact.