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The car hit by the fatal rocket burns (Channel 10)
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| By israelinsider staff May 21, 2007 |
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A woman was killed and a man moderately injured Monday evening after a Qassam rocket hit a car at a commercial center in Sderot.
It was the first fatality in the unrelenting barrage of rockets that have been fired by terror groups from Gaza at Sderot and the western Negev in recent days, causing widespread damage, many injured, and local residents living in terror and shock from the threat of instant destruction.
Five rockets were fired at the southern town just before 8 pm. Two landed south of Ashkelon, two in the western Negev, and the fatal one in Sderot, near a bakery.
Friedman killed suffered injuries to her limbs and stomach. She was evacuated by a Magen David Adom ambulance to Barzilay Medical Center in Ashkelon, where she died from her wounds.
The man, 20, was injured by shrapnel and evacuated to the same hospital. Twelve people were treated for shock.
The Salah al-Din Brigades, the Popular Resistance Committees' military wing, claimed responsibility for the rocket attacks. More than 10 rockets have been fired from the Gaza Strip since Monday morning.
Sderot residents said that the rocket alert system was not activated before the rockets landed.
A resident, Moshe Shaubi, said: "I passed by to buy shoes. I saw my nephew exactly at the place where the rocket later fell. I shouted at him, 'Are you crazy? Don't hang around here.' Suddenly I heard an explosion. The rocket hit exactly when a woman passed by the car which was directly hit. I saw her and she was severely hurt in her legs."
Earlier, the alert system was activated in Sderot as students were taking their matriculation exam in English. Terrified parents called the schools in fear that a rocket may have hit an education institution.
Israeli Response: More of the Same
"No nation would tolerate the consistent rocketing of it's citizens, and neither will Israel," said David Baker, an official in the Prime Minister's Office. "We will continue to take whatever steps are necessary to bring these attacks to an end and to prevent terror from being inflicted upon the residents of Sderot and the western Negev."
"This is precisely the kind of terror that Israel will not tolerate. We are compelled to continue with defensive measures to prevent these attacks and we will not cease these measures until these Kassam rocket attacks stop," Baker said.
The Israel Defense Forces on Monday called up 35 reserve medics on emergency orders to serve in Sderot, Ashkelon, and other parts of the western Negev, Army Radio reported. |
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