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The mobile home hit by the Kassam rocket.
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| By Israel Insider staff and partners February 3, 2006 |
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Palestinians fired a Kassam rocket shortly before the Sabbath, hitting a mobile home south of Ashkelon. A seven-month old infant suffered a serious head wound, and three other family members were injured moderately. The paramedic who reached the family was the grandfather of the baby. After months of ignoring rocket attacks, unnamed defense officials vowed to make a "fierce and sustained" response, although the initial reaction was empty words and strikes at empty fields.
Ynet reported that the mother of the baby wounded in the recent Qassam attack was evacuated to Soroka Medical Center in Beer Sheva suffering from panic. The baby was sedated and taken to a CT scan. The grandfather, Yosef Cohen, a Magen David Adom paramedic summoned to the site of the attack said "the Qassam landed in the mobile home's bedroom and blew the husband, the baby and the mother in the air."
Palestinians fired two additional Kassam rockets toward the coastal town of Ashkelon. One rocket hit the industrial zone south of the town, damaging a fence and a water company structure. There was no damage to the water supply or other critical infrastructure.
Israel Defense Forces artillery shelled "Kassam launching areas" in Gaza Strip shortly after the rocket attack. "Launching areas" has become a code-word for empty fields and empty buildings. Recently the IDF has not even bothered to do that.
In another example of heated lip service, the usual spokesman in the Prime Minister's Office chided the Palestinian Authority, saying that it remained responsible for stopping such attacks.
"This was a brutal attack on an Israeli family on Sabbath's eve. The Palestinian Authority can not and will not be allowed to shirk its responsibility for preventing such attacks. It continues to not take any discernable steps to prevent such attacks against Israelis," David Baker said.
No word on whether the government of Israel would take action to defend its citizens.
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