Jerusalem – 8 Hurt From Barrage Of Rockets Into Israel (photos)

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    A burning car after a rocket fired from Gaza landed directly in the middle of a residential neighborhood in the southern town of Kiryat Gat, Israel, 31 July 2014 (MDA)Jerusalem – Eight people were hurt after a mortar shell fired from Gaza exploded in the Eshkol Regional Council on Thursday evening, Israeli media reported.

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    Emergency teams airlifted three seriously injured people to Soroka University Medical Center in Beersheba, according to Channel 2. The others were evacuated to various hospitals in Israel.

    Mortars do not set off the Code Red rocket siren and typically fall without warning.

    Earlier Thursday, Rocket fire towards central Israel’s major population centers resumed on Thursday, setting off sirens in the greater Tel Aviv area and sending local residents running for shelter.

    Sirens sounded in Tel Aviv and the surrounding communities, as well as in the South. A rocket struck near a residential building in Kiryat Gat, moderately-to-seriously wounding a man in his thirties. He was transported to Barzilai Medical Center in Ashkelon for treatment.

    A teenage girl and a 60-year-old man were lightly hurt in the attack.

    The Iron Dome intercepted one rocket fired toward the greater Tel Aviv area, according to the IDF. Police were searching for rocket shrapnel that is believed to have fallen in the city

    Rockets were fired from Gaza toward Israel throughout the day on Thursday, targeting the communities surrounding the Gaza Strip, as well as the Ashkelon area repeatedly.

    There were no reports of injuries in the earlier attacks.

    Several clashes occurred between the IDF and Hamas overnight between Wednesday and Thursday. The Givati Brigade’s Tzabar Battalion killed two terrorists in gun battles in southern Gaza early in the morning.

    A Golani infantry brigade unit saw a terrorist surfacing from a tunnel on Thursday morning, killing the gunman.

    Paratroopers identified five terrorists and dispatched an air force craft, which struck the suspects, killing them.

    The IDF is examining a number of shafts found in Gaza to see if they are connected to new tunnels, or to underground passages that the army already knows about.

    The IDF destroyed several tunnels in the past 24 hours, a senior IDF source said Thursday morning.

     An Israeli family in Tel Aviv takes shelter in the stairwell during a warning siren signalling an incoming missile attack from the Gaza Strip, 31 July 2014.  EPA

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    Sherree
    Sherree
    9 years ago

    What???? These are “real” rockets???? Not just “firecrackers” as the Jew Haters would like us to believe????