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| By: Israel Insider staff |
| Published: September 6, 2007 |
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Two Qassam rockets fired from the Gaza Strip hit the western Negev Thursday, one striking a Sderot house, causing slight damage but no injuries. The second rocket landed in a nearby field.
The Sderot parents association said Thursday that students would return to school Friday after staying home for three days due to a strike protesting the government's failure to stop the unrelenting rocket fire that plagues the city.
Meanwhile, the Defense Ministry announced it would be placing 15 concrete structures, called "migunit," in open areas in Sderot that residents can use as shelter in case of a rocket attack,
"It must be very difficult to live under such tension," said British government spokeswoman Baroness Janet Royall, who was touring Sderot with a delegation of British government officials. "We saw the Qassam rockets. That was extraordinary -- the number of rockets. And then talking to the head teacher in the school, I found that useful and interesting, and it made me much more aware of the day-to-day realities of people's lives," she said.
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