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Qassam rocket hits Sderot, sparks brushfire; no casualties

By Yuval Azoulay and Mijal Grinberg, Haaretz Correspondents

Palestinian militants fired a Qassam rocket at the western Negev town of Sderot late Friday afternoon, which sparked a brushfire but caused no casualties or damage to property.

On Thursday afternoon gunmen in the Gaza Strip also fired three Qassam rockets into the western Negev. Barzilai Hospital in Ashkelon reported that one person was treated for shock. No property damage was reported.

One of the rockets fired Thursday landed in an animal pen belonging to former prime minister Ariel Sharon's Sycamore Ranch.

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The pen is not actually within the ranch's bounds, and the rocket caused no damage to it.

Palestinians launched two more Qassams late Thursday, one of which hit an antenna in Kibbutz Nir Am.

Also Thursday, an Israel Air Force helicopter strike destroyed the disused control tower at Gaza's defunct airport. There were no casualties in the raid.

The Israel Defense Forces said that the air force fired at three armed men seen in the vicinity of the airport, near southern Gaza's border with Israel, but gave no further details.

Islamic Jihad said three of its gunmen were in the area, but left shortly before the strike.

The airport was closed down shortly after the outbreak of the intifada in 2000.

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1.	Make the Palestinians pay for the damage	19:43	\|	Conroy	10/08/07

2.	Gaza And Hamas Are In Self-Destruct Mode	21:28	\|	Bill Foonman	10/08/07

3.	Deduct from tax transfers....	21:29	\|	MLK	10/08/07

4.	Congratulations, Hamas	21:44	\|	Harry	10/08/07

5.	Deduct from tax transfer and...	21:54	\|	Rafa	10/08/07

6.	For the first time in the history of the qassam	22:06	\|	Mark Lincoln	10/08/07

7.	And now, from the department of wasted taxes	22:09	\|	Mark Lincoln	10/08/07

8.	www.ncr-iran.org, article dated May 27th 2007	23:35	\|	Lynn	10/08/07

9.	Israelis, try to stop Palestinians to study aerodynamics !!!	23:48	\|	mehmet	10/08/07

10.	Money, money, money; it must be funny....	00:12	\|	Hannah	11/08/07

11.	Lynn, do you have a clue about that web site?	02:41	\|	Mark Lincoln	11/08/07

12.	Mehment in Istanbul - High Energy Rocketry	02:48	\|	Mark Lincoln	11/08/07

13.	Hannah give me a break	02:53	\|	Mark Lincoln	11/08/07

14.	and no response from olmert again	03:07	\|	vik	11/08/07

15.	Cut the electricity	04:16	\|	Daniel	11/08/07

16.	And to think we give them water and elecricity	09:07	\|	Avi	11/08/07

17.	These are the people whose supporters abroad	09:28	\|	Anat	11/08/07

18.	Go ahead POF	09:53	\|	Dav	11/08/07

19.	To Mehmet NO.9	11:25	\|	justice	11/08/07

20.	Rafa has a very good point	11:30	\|	justice	11/08/07

21.	To Hannah No.10	11:38	\|	justice	11/08/07

22.	#21 Justice suck money	14:04	\|	Dav	11/08/07

23.	Again to hannah @10	14:10	\|	jo moor	11/08/07

24.	How long is Israel going to let this go on?	14:36	\|	Shepherd	11/08/07

25.	Hamas forces predictable Israelis to play the Hamas game	14:55	\|	Natallie Durson	11/08/07

26.	25. Natallie Durson: Hamas forces	15:20	\|	KUTW	11/08/07

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