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Sderot residents react in fear (file photo by Yosi Shitrit)
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| By israelinsider staff May 15, 2007 |
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| (file photo by Yossi Shitrit) |
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A woman, 44, was moderately wounded and her 4-year-old son lightly injured Tuesday after a Qassam rocket fired from Gaza hit their house in the western Negev town of Sderot. Eight other individuals were treated for shock at the scene. In all, as of midnight, there were two moderate injuries, two light injuries and 17 treated for shock and minor injuries. More than two dozens rockets hit the Sderot area.
Hamas claimed credit for the attacks. The terror group fired eight rockets toward the western Negev on Tuesday evening, six of which hit Sderot. In addition to the one that devastated the family home, one rocket hit a schoolyard in the town and the four others hit open areas in the town. There were no reports of injuries in these attacks.
Late Tuesday night, eight more Qassams landed in the region, in three separate salvos. No one was injured from this particular barrage, but earlier rockets wreaked havoc.
In additional Qassam hit a low-voltage powerline, causing a temporary black-out. Residents said the barrage was one of the worst in a long time.
Channel Two Arab affairs analyst Ehud Yaari said that the Qassam baarage was a cynical ploy to get Israel to respond forcefully and thus unify Palestinian forces who have been shooting at each other in recent days following the breakdown of the Mecca ceasefire. He noted that a Hamas spokesman even tried to blame Israel for the organizations brutal attack on Mahmoud Abbas' Presidential Guard unit near the Karni crossing, in which eight Fatah men were killed by an explosion -- either from a mine or a missile -- followed by close-range kill-shots.
Israeli Defense Minister and buffoon Amir Peretz, a Sderot resident, called an "emergency meeting" of security forces, but since the Israeli Cabinet has been ordered by the United States not to respond to rocket attacks, no serious moves are expected.
Meanwhile, life goes on in Sderot and the entire region around Gaza, in the manner befitting a government which abandoned not only the residents of Israeli communities -- now used as launch pads for the rocket attack -- there but also those in surrounding towns for miles around. It is reality for every child, parent and mother who lives in constant threat of attack, defenseless at a time when Israel is leaderless.
The Sderot Media Center contributed to this report. |
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