3 Hurt as Rockets Hit Buildings in South

Jerusalem Post
January 3, 2009

http://www.jewishpolicycenter.org/587/3-hurt-as-rockets-hit-buildings-in-south

As Operation Cast Lead moves into its second week, Palestinians showed no signs of ending their rocket attacks against Israel, firing at least 24 projectiles on Saturday.

The latest incident occurred when a woman was lightly wounded after a rocket fired by Palestinians from the Gaza Strip hit a house in Netivot. The woman was wounded in her leg from shrapnel. The house reportedly collapsed from the strike.

A second rocket fell in an open area in the city. Earlier, a rocket landed in Sderot and another, fired seconds before, fell near a kibbutz in the Sha'ar Hanegev kibbutz.

No causalities were reported in either incident.

On Saturday afternoon, two people were lightly wounded by shrapnel when an eight-story building in Ashdod sustained a direct hit by a Grad-type rocket. At least three other people on the scene were treated for shock.

A number of buildings were also damaged by rockets on Saturday. One rocket hit a cafeteria in a kibbutz on the Gaza periphery, another slammed into a courtyard of a house in Ashkelon, sparking a fire, a third hit a playground in the city, while a fourth damaged a building in the Ashkelon beach area. Netivot, Sderot, Gan Yavne, Kiryat Malachi, the Sha'ar Hanegev region, and the Eshkol region also reported rocket strikes.

Nobody was wounded in any of the attacks.

The morning volley followed a barrage of 36 rockets on Friday in which seven people were lightly wounded and three residential buildings were damaged.

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