Israeli Man Injured in Rocket Attack

Jewish Telegraphic Agency
December 9, 2010

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JERUSALEM (JTA) -- Following a rocket strike from Gaza on the western Negev which injured one, Israel's Air Force struck three terrorism-linked sites in Gaza.

The early Thursday morning attacks, which hit a weapons manufacturing and storage site in the central Gaza Strip and two terrorism hubs in the northern Gaza Strip followed a barrage of five rockets fired on southern Israel Wednesday evening, according to the Israel Defense Forces spokesman's office.

The wounded man was airlifted by the IDF to a hospital in Beersheba. A home in a kibbutz was also damaged. Southern residents were told to enter bomb shelters on Wednesday night.

Thursday morning's strikes come a day after an Israeli Air Force strike on a weapons manufacturing site and a smuggling tunnel, in response to the firing from Gaza of three rockets at Israel's southern communities over two days. Both targets were hit.

"Escalation is only a matter of time. The threat in the area is constant and growing," read a statement issued Thursday by several southern Israeli regional councils. "We hope that the government will know how to relate to this reality, before formulating policy for the southern line of conflict for 2011. The government must realize that this will be an active line of conflict for the foreseeable future."

About 200 rockets fired from Gaza have landed in Israel since the beginning of 2010, the IDF said.

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