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Defense Minister Peretz (right) and President Katsav (center) meeting with Sderot residents on Monday. (Limor Edrey)
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Sderot shutdown strike postponed as Katsav pays solidarity visit
By Avi Issacharoff, Gideon Alon, Yuval Azoulay, and Mijal Grinberg, Haaretz Correspondents and Agencies

The town of Sderot will shut down on Tuesday, and all entrances and exits to the town, which has borne the brunt of the Qassam rocket attacks from the Gaza Strip, will be sealed.

Mayor Eli Moyal announced the shutdown on Sunday night, and it was due to go into effect on Monday. But he later received a telephone call from President Moshe Katsav, who said that he was planning to visit on Monday, and the strike was thus delayed by one day. Katsav and Defense Minister Amir Peretz arrived in the southern town Monday afternoon and met with Moyal and bereaved families at the municipality.

The Sderot municipality also decided that the town's school year would end early, with the summer holidays beginning on Monday. The council intends to step up its protest activities, including by camping out in front of the government offices in Jerusalem.
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"I will do everything possible in order to avoid an escalation, because it would lead to days of Qassam barrages," Peretz said during his meeting with Katsav and Moyal yesterday. A short while before the meeting, the alarm that signals rocket fire had once again gone off.

Peretz said that Israel's message to the Palestinians about the Qassam attacks has been absorbed, but that a number of extremist organizations have yet to respond to the demand to halt the fire.

Even before the alarm went off, Sderot's streets and shopping centers were deserted as Katsav and Peretz, himself a longtime resident of the town, drove through. A few shopkeepers were standing idly outside the commercial center and talking. "There's been no business for two weeks already," one said. "People don't go out into the streets. They are afraid and prefer to stay home."

Annette Malka, 25, who owns a clothing store, says that she will have to close her shop because she can no longer afford the rent. "It started about half a year ago, when I had to close my first store, and it has been downhill all the way since then," she said.

Yaffa owns a hair salon close by. She pointed to her 14-year-old daughter, who was with her. "She's afraid to go home ... No one understands what the children are going through here. They don't sleep at night. They are afraid all the time."

"I hear the growing chorus of voices in the town, of residents who want to leave," Moyal said. "I have to do everything necessary so that the town will not be deserted." Moyal called on the government to resign over its failure to protect the town.

Following the meeting at the municipality, Katsav met with hunger strikers protesting the rocket attacks and urged them to halt their protest. Two of the hunger strikers were rushed to the hospital in Be'er Sheva on Sunday after collapsing. The strike was in fact halted on Monday, as leaders began fearing for the health of the other eight protesters.

IAF plane fires missile at metal workshop in Gaza
An Israel Air Force aircraft fired missiles at a metal workshop in Gaza City early Tuesday, residents and Israel Defense Forces sources said.

The IDF said the workshop was run by Hamas and used to make rockets and other weapons. Residents said no one was hurt.

Peretz under fire from the right
Peretz on Monday came under fire from right-wing legislators at a Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee session, over his policy to combat Qassam rocket fire from the Gaza Strip.

MK Effi Eitam (National Religious Party-National Union) dubbed Peretz's policy as "cowardly," adding that the Israel Defense Forces were not producing the necessary deterrence.

According to Eitam, Hamas and Hezbollah realize it is possible for them to launch Qassam rockets at Israel, without incurring an appropriate IDF response.

Peretz reiterated at the meeting that if the Qassam attacks persist, he intends to employ harsh measures to create a complete cessation of rocket fire on Israel.

Earlier Monday, Moyal called on Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and his government to resign in the face of their failure to put an end to the Qassam attacks on the southern town.

Speaking on Israel Radio, Moyal said that if the government is unable to defend the town it must step down.

Justice Minister Haim Ramon, who spoke on Israel Radio after Moyal, said that if rocket attacks were to continue, the IDF would step up the measures used against those launching the Qassams.

Ramon said that the IDF has killed hundreds of militants engaged in firing the rockets, but it will take more time before the attacks are halted altogether.
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  1.   They should smuggle anti-aircraft weapons 22:49  |  Kaspi 17/06/06
  2.   Disengagement from Gaza works so well! 23:12  |  Raphael 17/06/06
  3.   "tey should smuggle anti-aircraft weapons" 23:15  |  jenoseemann 17/06/06
  4.   Thank you HITNATKUT IDIOTS 23:15  |  amir 17/06/06
  5.   at least they don`t get their weapons from us for free 23:22  |  Dror 17/06/06
  6.   Good idea Kaspi... 23:22  |  Nik 17/06/06
  7.   And then YOU cry 23:26  |  somebody 17/06/06
  8.   WHATS WORSE THEY ARE PAYING NO VAT or duty 00:05  |  paul harris 18/06/06
  9.   Egypt Arms 00:39  |  Brod 18/06/06
  10.   These arms are for killing each other, not Israelis. 01:28  |  George 18/06/06
  11.   Can only occur if Egypt violates Peace Treaty 01:44  |  Dr. L. Brnd 18/06/06
  12.   #4 Thank you HITNATKUT IDIOTS 01:45  |  B`Galil 18/06/06
  13.   they should smuggle antiaircraft weapons 01:54  |  pablo bronstein 18/06/06
  14.   Hitkansut 02:45  |  hadag nakhash 18/06/06
  15.   Well Duh! 03:15  |  James 18/06/06
  16.   Palestinians WMD and A-bombs 04:23  |  El-Birawi 18/06/06
  17.   DuHHHHH!!! 04:36  |  dave 18/06/06
  18.   RECONQUER GAZA,,SINAI,ANNUL CAMP DAVID DISASTER!))))))))))))))))) 07:25  |  -VOICE of MOSHIACH)) 18/06/06
  19.   HARD TO BELIEVE 07:29  |  Arik Silverman 18/06/06
  20.   So hypocrytical 08:06  |  Adrian de Klerk 18/06/06
  21.   # 7, That`s right 08:10  |  Joey 18/06/06
  22.   First three steps 08:28  |  Alex 18/06/06
  23.   stop gas to gaza 08:32  |  Ellen 18/06/06
  24.   Qassam rocket disrupts electricity supply to Sderot 08:34  |  alex 18/06/06
  25.   How Fitting That The Rabin Neighborhood Suffered 09:01  |  Yishai Kohen 18/06/06
  26.   How about a `Deep Penetration Bomb? 09:29  |  Rob Hill 18/06/06
  27.   WHO CARES? 09:31  |  MEIR WEINSTEIN 18/06/06
  28.   Cut off ALL services and monies to the pal`s! 09:39  |  Rob Hill 18/06/06
  29.   it should top the list. 09:51  |  arab 18/06/06
  30.   what about israel 09:52  |  arab 18/06/06
  31.   Kick the bums out. 10:03  |  Paul la Demain 18/06/06
  32.   Free arms 10:33  |  Dav 18/06/06
  33.   Olmert: King of Weapons Smuggling 11:17  |  dave 18/06/06
  34.   Screw the anti-aircraft weapons 11:33  |  Salviati 18/06/06
  35.   response to qassams 14:23  |  adam 18/06/06
  36.   What exactly Palestinian"Peace loving" people 15:12  |  Sal 18/06/06
  37.   Route 6 from Egypt into Gaza 15:36  |  John 18/06/06
  38.   Qassam strike. 16:13  |  David NIgel Braham 18/06/06
  39.   Quassams aimed at infrastructure 16:33  |  angiolillo 18/06/06
  40.   #39 abgiolillo 17:09  |  Yonatan 18/06/06
  41.   #11 You`re so right 17:09  |  Nechama 18/06/06
  42.   Sacrificing Sderot 17:13  |  Yonatan 18/06/06
  43.   What if? 17:16  |  Nechama 18/06/06
  44.   #35 adam in worcester. Excellent idea! 17:22  |  Nechama 18/06/06
  45.   #41 Nechama - Israel is scared! 17:25  |  Yonatan 18/06/06
  46.   #45 Yonatan 17:39  |  Nechama 18/06/06
  47.   Olmert very careful not to damage the precious pals 17:43  |  Absolute Sweden 18/06/06
  48.   Home made missiles fired from Sderot into Gaza 17:49  |  Alex 18/06/06
  49.   OH the SUPER-irony! 17:54  |  G.S. 18/06/06
  50.   Currupt Goverment 18:58  |  Sam Weinstein 18/06/06
  51.   24 Hours 18:59  |  Sam Weinstein 18/06/06
  52.   Good step 19:01  |  Yonatan 18/06/06
  53.   What`s good for Sdarot is good for Gaza. 19:15  |  Dr. Giora Sedman 18/06/06
  54.   # 41 - Is Olmert in Coma? 19:25  |  Dr. Giora Sedman 18/06/06
  55.   DUST OFF THE PATRIOT MISSLE BATTERYS 19:34  |  NEIL GOLAN 18/06/06
  56.   There goes our electric power weapon 20:12  |  Yonatan 18/06/06
  57.   #56 Not Quite 20:28  |  Sam Weinstein 18/06/06
  58.   Reciprocity 20:30  |  isac 18/06/06
  59.   DUST OFF THE PATRIOT MISSLE BATTERYS 20:30  |  Mark Lincoln 18/06/06
  60.   Helping the Enemy 20:32  |  Mark Lincoln 18/06/06
  61.   #53 20:37  |  Mikha`el 18/06/06
  62.   #60 Mark Lincoln - getting attention 20:55  |  Yonatan 18/06/06
  63.   good, they will have a taste of what Israel is doing to the 22:04  |  Saabasteinne 18/06/06
  64.   ONLY A TOTAL DESTRUCTION OF GAZA TOWNS AND PEOPLE 22:10  |  James Kirk 18/06/06
  65.   I BELIVE ISRAELIS CAN FIX THE PROBLEM WITOUT IDF 22:22  |  Fritz Shoomaher 18/06/06
  66.   Israel`s Big Talkers 22:23  |  Erik 18/06/06
  67.   OLMERT`S CONVEGENS PLAN = 2D GAZA IN OUR HEART LAND 22:28  |  Michael Iosif 18/06/06
  68.   PERETZ IS A MOROCAN JEW WITHOUT BOLLS, YOU NEED A RUSSIAN GENERAL 22:32  |  Alexander Baranov 18/06/06
  69.   The shame of the Olmert government 22:34  |  Shalom Freedman 18/06/06
  70.   Olmert abandons Sderot to prove "No military solution" 22:42  |  Absolute Sweden 18/06/06
  71.   # 65 Fritz Schumacher 00:35  |  Krin 19/06/06
  72.   Rabbi Hillel 00:44  |  George Haas 19/06/06
  73.   only gaxa destruction 00:46  |  Joe 19/06/06
  74.   Rabbi Hillel 00:46  |  George Haas 19/06/06
  75.   #60, Mark Lincoln 00:55  |  Cipora Julianna Kohn 19/06/06
  76.   War is a cynical business Cipora 01:24  |  Mark Lincoln 19/06/06
  77.   Land, Air, and Sea Assault on Gaza Please 01:54  |  Yoram 19/06/06
  78.   response to Joe on "chosen people" 01:55  |  Jake 19/06/06
  79.   Olmert REFUSES TO NEGOTIATE 02:06  |  Joe 19/06/06
  80.   Houston, we have a problem... 02:16  |  hadag nakhash 19/06/06
  81.   Re#65 Fritz, What would Baruch Goldstein say? 02:33  |  Meir Weinstein 19/06/06
  82.   NO PEACE TO PALESININS, A TOTAL AND FINAL REMOVAL ONLY. 02:42  |  James Kirk 19/06/06
  83.   Meir Weinstein-- WAKE UP! 03:03  |  Joe 19/06/06
  84.   Why don`t the Arabs leave Gaza? Why do Jews have to leave? 03:06  |  Melanie 19/06/06
  85.   Meir Weinstein 81, I LIKE IT 03:08  |  Fritz Shoomaher 19/06/06
  86.   #76, Mark Lincoln 03:09  |  Cipora Julianna Kohn 19/06/06
  87.   All that is needed is a . . . Yoram 03:40  |  Mark Lincoln 19/06/06
  88.   Send them West. . . 03:44  |  Mark Lincoln 19/06/06
  89.   Sdererot residents, victims of their own leaders. 04:01  |  Ibrahim 19/06/06
  90.   response to#78 04:09  |  Joe 19/06/06
  91.   Re#85 Fritz, LETS JUST IN THEORY TALK ABOUT PLAN GOLDSTEIN 04:13  |  MEIR WEINSTEIN 19/06/06
  92.   Re #82 05:01  |  Joe 19/06/06
  93.   re #78 05:13  |  Joe 19/06/06
  94.   RE#83 DEAR JOE FROM RAMALLAH 05:23  |  MEIR WEINSTEIN 19/06/06
  95.   To#92 Joe, I am exacly like them 05:47  |  James Kirk 19/06/06
  96.   "leibesrahm", Mr Lincoln. 06:06  |  hadag nakhash 19/06/06
  97.   Re#95 James Kirk, I respect you 06:10  |  Meir Weinstein 19/06/06
  98.   qasam rokets how to stop and haaretz are you Jewish? 06:10  |  charro 19/06/06
  99.   Its not that big a deal 08:49  |  teif 19/06/06
  100.   Sderot - Strike 09:33  |  Mel (M) 19/06/06
  101.   How to make it stop immediately 09:47  |  Alex 19/06/06
  102.   teif and qassams # 99 09:54  |  ChanahS 19/06/06
  103.   The Mayor ought to be counting his blessings 10:26  |  Dutch 19/06/06
  104.   Built a Palestinian jail in Sderot 10:28  |  Ann Coulter 19/06/06
  105.   foolish olmert 10:30  |  zeev 19/06/06
  106.   Beth Lahya and Beth Hanoun must be destroyed 11:20  |  Shlomo from Tel-Aviv 19/06/06
  107.   Meir Kahane 11:45  |  Steve 19/06/06
  108.   What you don`t understand... 11:50  |  Proud Israeli Jew 19/06/06
  109.   Sderot 12:50  |  Jake 19/06/06
  110.   #108 Proud Israeli Jew 13:36  |  MR 19/06/06
  111.   good idea 14:01  |  JJ 19/06/06
  112.   # 110 MR 14:02  |  Proud Israeli Jew 19/06/06
  113.   First Duty 14:15  |  Sidney 19/06/06
  114.   #103 less hate please 15:02  |  HJ 19/06/06
  115.   Peretz cares more about Peace Now and illigal settlements 15:05  |  Sam Weinstein 19/06/06
  116.   Built a Palestinian jail in Sderot-Ann Coulter 15:12  |  isac 19/06/06
  117.   #103 Dutch`s Defense of Incompetence 15:14  |  Umm El Kul Naqba 19/06/06
  118.   #1, maybe 15:23  |  Danny - Israeli one 19/06/06
  119.   #16, that`s right 15:26  |  Danny - Israeli one 19/06/06
  120.   #34, from recollection the arabs had.... 15:29  |  Danny - Israeli one 19/06/06
  121.   Yet another pearl from Haaretz 15:43  |  Mike Savage 19/06/06
  122.   #103 15:49  |  Danny - Israeli one 19/06/06
  123.   MK`s: Slaughter more Palestinian children in revenge 16:35  |  Samed 19/06/06
  124.   rightist 16:44  |  ester 19/06/06
  125.   Ibrahim-Sderot residents victims of their own leaders? 16:45  |  Daniel Leopold 19/06/06
  126.   Samed and his false probelms 17:16  |  SHIMON 19/06/06
  127.   Samed, why would an end to "occupation" bring peace?? 17:18  |  SHIMON 19/06/06
  128.   Peretz, a mixed bag 17:53  |  Ron 19/06/06
  129.   Israel`s Policy: Stealing,Eating Stinking Fish, getting Whipped 17:57  |  Lubavitcher Rebbe 19/06/06
  130.   Embrace Policy of Disproportionate and Continuous Response 18:00  |  Bernard Ross 19/06/06
  131.   army 18:03  |  new york/israel 19/06/06
  132.   Peretz and Olmert = Criminal Incompetence 18:16  |  Mike Savage 19/06/06
  133.   And Peretz and Olmart is Protecting Israel from Iran 18:17  |  Sam Weinstein 19/06/06
  134.   Samed # 123 18:18  |  ChanahS 19/06/06
  135.   Quassam Production 18:28  |  Mark Lincoln 19/06/06
  136.   Qassam attacks 19:18  |  Snerd 19/06/06
  137.   Simple solution to stopping Kassams 19:20  |  Dr. L. Brnd 19/06/06
  138.   # 87- Mark Lincoln- Lost In Vietnam Defeatism 19:22  |  Yoram 19/06/06
  139.   Complete Betrayal Of The Citizens of Israel 19:26  |  Ben Israel 19/06/06
  140.   Escalate to the limit! 19:28  |  Pastor Phil 19/06/06
  141.   What a wussie nation we have become 19:32  |  ace 19/06/06
  142.   Peretz: An IDF escalation would bring more Qassams on Sderot 19:47  |  alex 19/06/06
  143.   qassams and sderot 19:52  |  Dennis 19/06/06
  144.   SAMED : get a life 19:57  |  Steven 19/06/06
  145.   Response to Qassams 20:07  |  Jeff Grossman 19/06/06
  146.   How to end rocket attacks 20:17  |  bruce 19/06/06
  147.   @146 Bruce 20:34  |  Lenny 19/06/06
  148.   Evacuate Sderot... 20:40  |  Henry 19/06/06
  149.   #126 Rape, Massacre, and Torture 20:41  |  Samed 19/06/06
  150.   Steven, get a life 20:43  |  angiolillo 19/06/06
  151.   Let Hamas take responsibility for IJ attacks? 20:47  |  angiolillo 19/06/06
  152.   #138 Zionists Gang Raped Palestinian Girls 20:47  |  Samed 19/06/06
  153.   Send not one doller, bla bla bla 20:49  |  angiolillo 19/06/06
  154.   Samed...where does arab terrorism fit in...u avoided my question 20:50  |  SHIMON 19/06/06
  155.   #144 Gaza is Occupied 20:54  |  Samed 19/06/06
  156.   #154 Why Palestinians Struggle, since 1923 21:03  |  Samed 19/06/06
  157.   poor Samed`s chasing his tail #149 21:04  |  peter 19/06/06
  158.   Samed...what would happen if the IDF left the gaza border alone? 21:08  |  SHIMON 19/06/06
  159.   #4: hitnatkut? 21:26  |  Paul Freedman 19/06/06
  160.   104 Ann Coulter - Another Blond Moment 21:27  |  Mark of Lewiston 19/06/06
  161.   Samed Why do they leave Pals leave the villages 21:28  |  Aby 19/06/06
  162.   dumbass 21:39  |  Omar 19/06/06
  163.   i gurantee 21:40  |  Omar 19/06/06
  164.   Samed, Did you ever read Einstein 21:51  |  Aby 19/06/06
  165.   #161 Benny Morris 21:52  |  Samed 19/06/06
  166.   #164 Albert Einsten on Zionist fascism 22:04  |  Samed 19/06/06
  167.   Re-occupation as an answer Lenny? 22:18  |  bruce 19/06/06
  168.   95 - Captain 22:19  |  Mark of Lewiston 19/06/06
  169.   its only a matter of time 22:19  |  twogunz 19/06/06
  170.   What a moron 22:24  |  twogunz 19/06/06
  171.   To Twogunz 22:25  |  Howard 19/06/06
  172.   After 50 years of Israel`s existence Peretz still "Dutch" 22:29  |  Absolute Sweden 19/06/06
  173.   For too long Israel beat down Pal, now shoe is on the other foot 22:42  |  Yossi Cronenberg 19/06/06
  174.   Samed...people legally moving in warrants a massacre?? 23:16  |  SHIMON 19/06/06
  175.   Peretz is right, there is no military solution to Qassams! 23:26  |  Abu Ali 19/06/06
  176.   people legally moving in warrants a massacre?? 23:33  |  maako 19/06/06
  177.   accept the resigantion of Peretz 23:41  |  Y 19/06/06
  178.   Alex Baronov many of you are rootless 23:48  |  Sam 19/06/06
  179.   Yoram - Suffering Delusions 23:52  |  Mark Lincoln 19/06/06
  180.   Still no suggestions? 23:56  |  Mark Lincoln 19/06/06
  181.   escalation would bring more...... 23:59  |  ljf-canada 19/06/06
  182.   Cut off Gaza`s water: No Water = No terror 23:59  |  Yehuda Maccabee 19/06/06
  183.   Jake Isi asks for peace 00:00  |  sam 20/06/06
  184.   It is Time for More Disengagement 00:07  |  Andrew 20/06/06
  185.   Fight back and the enemy might get mad! 00:08  |  Stuart 20/06/06
  186.   Cipora julianna Kohn tries to lie 00:12  |  sam 20/06/06
  187.   Mark Lincoln building monument to Chamberlain at his ranch 00:17  |  Absolute Sweden 20/06/06
  188.   Joe on capt kirk thats a big ten four lol lol 00:21  |  sam 20/06/06
  189.   joe a rabid dog is usualy put down 00:25  |  sam 20/06/06
  190.   Mark Lincoln - resettling isn`t the bogeyman you declare 00:28  |  peter 20/06/06
  191.   #173 00:33  |  MR 20/06/06
  192.   fish have 8 second memories 00:43  |  Rene 20/06/06
  193.   Mark Lincoln :" Big Hat, No Cattle" 01:29  |  Yoram 20/06/06
  194.   Rene,I thought you`re talking about the Israeli memoryless leader 01:42  |  Absolute Sweden 20/06/06
  195.   #182 Casual reference to genocide of Palestinians 01:46  |  Samed 20/06/06
  196.   Hitting the machine shop 02:11  |  Mark Lincoln 20/06/06
  197.   Kassam Rockets 02:20  |  Aubrey 20/06/06
  198.   maako good call ps where is harlow 02:33  |  sam 20/06/06
  199.   Defense 02:59  |  daniel leiper 20/06/06
  200.   Missile at Metal Workshop 03:04  |  Billy Boy 20/06/06
  201.   Fire the Defense Minister, he is defending 05:29  |  Momo 20/06/06
  202.   Workshop 05:40  |  Adrian de Klerk 20/06/06
  203.   #186, sam:opinions cannot be lies 07:18  |  Cipora Julianna Kohn 20/06/06
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