Israeli killed as a result of rocket barrage on southern Israel
Man wounded in Ashkelon rocket strike dies of his wounds; some 20 rockets, mortars fired from Gaza into Israel; IDF kills five Islamic Jihad militants just hours before rocket attack, then kills two more in retaliatory strike.
By Yanir Yagna and Haaretz Tags: IDF Gaza Iron DomeSome 20 rockets and mortar shells were fired from Gaza into southern Israel on Saturday, killing one man and wounding four others.
The rocket barrage followed an IDF strike on the Gaza Strip which resulted in the deaths of five Islamic Jihad militants.
Rockets were fired from Gaza into Ashdod, Ashkelon, Gan Yavne, and around Be'er Sheva. One man was seriously wounded in Ashkelon and eventually died of his wounds. Another man was moderately wounded in the Ashdod rocket strike and three others were lightly hurt. Moreover, 17 trauma victims were reported.
As a result of the escalation, classes were canceled in Ashdod, Ashkelon and other towns in the 40-kilometer range from Gaza. Ben Gurion University in Be'er Sheva also called off classes, which were due to begin on Sunday.
The Israel Defense Forces responded to the rocket fire by carrying out another air strike on Gaza militants, and according to Palestinian sources, two more militants were killed as a result.
The IDF Spokesperson issued a statement Saturday confirming an Israel Air Force strike on Gaza militants who were firing rockets into Israel.
On Saturday afternoon, four rockets exploded in Ashdod, one directly hitting a residential building and lightly wounding a man. Another rocket hit a school, but caused no casualties.
An hour afterward a rocket hit an Ashkelon home, seriously wounding a man who was transferred to Barzilai hospital where he later died of his wounds.
One rocket exploded in Gan Yavne, lightly wounding a 40-year-old man who sustained shrapnel wounds to his legs. Several trauma victims were also reported.
A short time later, a Qassam rocket fell in Hof Ashkelon Regional Council, and three mortar shells landed in an open area in the Eshkol Regional Council, causing no casualties or damage.
After several hours, two more rockets exploded in an open area west of Be'er Sheva, and no casualties were reported.
Yigal Cooper, a resident of the Ashdod building that was hit, said that the city was in panic.
"We knew there would be more explosions so we went into our protected spaces. The whole building shook and we panicked. We waited for several minutes before coming out, and then I saw that my car had burned down."
Following the explosions, head of the Gan Yavneh local council, Dror Aharon, said, "We heard an explosion one minute after the siren sounded. Damage has been caused to a number of vehicles and houses."
The council head said the wounded man is Chaim, who heads the parent committee at one of the community's schools. According to Aharon, Chaim ran outside to see if anything had happened to his son, and was wounded in his leg. He then ran home, and a Magen David Adom ambulance took him to a hospital.
"We have been demanding protected areas for some time now. This kind of reality could repeat itself tomorrow. We will evaluate the situation with the Home Front Command later on in the evening with regards to whether school will be held tomorrow," said Aharon.
An alarm sounded throughout Ashdod prior to the explosions, just hours after Israel Defense Forces soldiers killed a commander of the Islamic Jihad and four of its munitions experts.
According to IDF sources, the strike was targeted at the cell responsible for launching a Grad rocket that exploded in Ashdod earlier this week.
Palestinian sources say the strike occurred near the Al-Sultan neighborhood, near the former Israeli settlement of Atzmona. Sources also said the strike killed commander Ahmed al-Sheikh Khalil and four senior comrades who oversaw the manufacture of bombs and rockets for the faction.
In the wake of the strike, the organization said a response would come “deep into Israeli territory.”
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Site of Grad rocket explosion in school grounds in Ashdod, October 29, 2011. |
| Photo by: Eliyahu Hershkowitz |
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And we see how he is crating turmoil after turmoil
As a American senior citizen who has seen combat in a senseless war forty one years ago I wish I knew how I could help the citizens of Israel who are suffering the ongoing efforts of mindless human beings whose only wish is to destroy Israel. My heart goes out to all of you. I know this one thing. The West bank needs to be under the complete control of Israel and only populated by Jewish people, otherwise Israel is essentially divided at its center. Peace be unto you!
Seriously why don't you get off the land and go home and return the land to whom it belongs to. Maybe then you imposters will get the peace you seek.
Israel : Why this time to start trading Rockets, Bombs and Mortars? (Why the whim to start a tit for tat round?) Why was Iron Dome not turned on before starting this? When one side starts firing, the other always responds.
Then the Palestinians may be able to have a life and there wouldn't be any encroaching settlements to shoot at. Simple!
we are waiting for the representatives of the civilized world to condemn these missile attacks on israel's population centers.
IAF should hit residential areas in Gaza too.USAF and RAF did it in Germany,pals are not Holy Cows.
blow Gaza up, we're done dealing with this..you don't want peace and live side by side with us, then don't live at all !!!!!!
end the expansion of the illegal israeli colonies in palestine, end the occupation of palestine, end the ethnic cleansing, and the resistance to israel's illegal activities will non longer be necessary. Only way for the bombing to stop
Just drop one big bomb....American style....watch them change their way in one second...
Gaza launches some rockets back at Israel, a couple hit empty lots, one or two people have minor injuries from shrapnel. Thus Israel's initial murderous attack was justified?
The extremists on both sides will control the issues. This is why no peace will every ceom from negotiations. As soon as negotiations and the extremists of either side make an attack, the negotiations will fall apart.
Occupation comes at a price, you cannot oppress a people and expect them to love you; they hate you and rightfully so, don't pretend you don't know why.
Oh Yagana ! I feel that you fell in love !
Where was Iron Dome when all these projectiles were falling in populated areas?
Once and for all destroy the Hamas's infrastructure........destroy their electricity facilities,their harbour etc just like you did in Lebanon .Hammas just like the Hezbollah will think twice before sending rockets into Israel.
How fortunate the terror victim was only wounded and not murdered. The psychological trauma will last a lifetime. Once again terrorist in Gaza terrorize our people with their rockets and our people fear for their lives, and of their sons and daughters. How long will the UN, the world stand by and do nothing to aid Israel against terrorist in Gaza? This is an outrage and constant war crimes. There is no nation in the world that would tolerate their cities being rocketed.
i'm guessing we'll stand back and do notting till ye return all the stolen land and end the occupation, how in the name of god do ye people expect sympathy.
to the ones who think these rockets are just (rusty bits of metal) Should examine therir consciences..............Will they I wonder....No when thery are free to dispence with their denigration of Israel...( i am sure to the contrary they would be happy)..I am amazed everytime I read their resoponses..
.....the ones who think that a Palestinian rocket is nothing I suggest to catch one.....
And thats only what you can see with the naked eye, you don´t see the pressurewave or shrapnel. Go tjeck it out on youtube.
275 x 1??? Waw, if they were a bit intelligent they wouldn't dare attack Israel. Would you provoke your jiu-jitsu-champion neighbor? I think Paletinians dont care about life. They just attack and get ready to die. That is the price Israel has to pay to live close to not-so-smart people.
For the rockets also, right?
Not high enough...if the rockets don't stop, Israel should flatten Gaza altogether...what would you do if Sweden was firing rockets into Copenhagen?
a tragedy that one jewish person had to die so that 250 terrorists can die.
...... no resolution from the UN asking the Palestinians to stop there rockets? Just say that you hate Israel and that you do not care about a jewish life......... .....but even that you not to admit that everybody understands!!
even you cannt feel any sense of honesty with this posting, the palestians fire a rockets hitting schools and targeting civilians, and you think the UN should approve a no fly zone over gaza....that is so flawed in any rational thinking....btw perhaps you would prefer Israel fires rockets in the same manner gaza sends rockets into Israel??
Try refraining from sending rockets. There'll be a death rate ratio of 0:0
Tony we are talking about missiles fired on civilian targets with no provocation, being responded to by killing 5 terrorists. You have a problem with that?
There would be a great many dead foreign pilots thats for sure..........The Iraqi and Libyan airforces aren't the IAF.
Since Hamas has said that is how much 1 Jewish life is worth to the Palestinians but not only the Palestinians should be killed, Liberals like you who want to hide behind the Palestinians while you let them kill the Israelis should be the #1 target
Kill ratio is not nearly high enough: It should be 1000 Arabs squatters to 1 Israeli killed in his homeland.
If Hamas wants to continue their war on Israel, Israel should stop the prisoners swap.
These are potent weapons, and they kioll nobody.
This is a good idea but raised a lot of objections from humanitarians who felt no reason to object to rocket fire against Israel!
Obama gave Israel an additional grant to build 4 more Iron Dome batteries. By the end of this year there would be a few more available. They will protect the rest of the cities around Gaza. (At present, Ashkelon and Beer Sheva are protected.) Then Islamic Jihad will have to return to firing Qassams at Sderot. The IDF should have bought the Phalanx system for that. (Not expensive.)
it was a done deal before obama and congress approved it
Keep up the good work!
And you Leftist wonder why Israel votes Right.
If a rocket is fired into Israel, the light will go out again, this time for 2 weeks. My guess is that the Gaza citizens will take care of their problem children all by themselves.
It seems like the kids are in Gaza and not in Israel. Kids that keep on doing "naughty" things and getting punished because misbehaved kids must learn they should behave differently.
Maybe you should move to the moon, then you can have all the peace you desire. Bye now...
Daniel, if Israel will move to the moon, you will not have a cell phone, MRI, window, Youtube and many other things that came from Israel and of course we will not have the variety of belt bomb invented by the Palestinians...
the zionists can go back to europe and america where they all came from. Prime Minister Milikovski (fake name Netanyahu) and F. Minister Lieberman can go to their homeland in Russia. Palestinians have no where to go.
There you seem to believe in the bible according above state! Maybe you can go in advance than I have a good reason not to go..............
Why not visit Israel and see for yourself what the reasons are for political conflict instead of namecalling?
thats why they reject ceasefires, thats why they reject 2state solution. Shame on Israel!
You are blaming the injured versus the KILLER..Funny post with a double meaning.(memory loss)? Or a hatefilled one?? Odd to say the LEAST
One attack is not enough. Israel needs to mobilize our helicopters, tanks, men and artillery to strike at Islamic Jihad and prevent them from future attacks.
Hamas has learned that Israel will hold them responsible for any attacks from Gaza. If Israel hits Hamas' militants and potentially conditions the future release of the 550 militants to complete the Shalit swap on "assured calm", then they will impose the cease-fire on IJ and all the other factions and sub-factions. It's a bizarre situation vis a vis Gaza; Hamas is the ruling military junta but provides no services to its people who are practically hostages; the PA, who has no political influence on the ground, pays all the bills with money donated by Western powers who are nominally opposed to the terrorism that Hamas represents; Israel, which isn't recognized by Hamas delivers enough food to keep Gaza fat despite having no official recognition with the very government that is receiving the goods; their Egyptians brothers keep the door locked on the Rafah side so that they don't get stuck taking care of 1.5 million people and even the Muslim Brotherhood has said that once they are in power, they'll leave the door closed to shipping least Israel be off the hook; so, it should be perfectly logical in this neighborhood that Hamas should enforce the security arrangements to protect Israeli civilians for rocket and mortar fire.
That is the only solution. Israel should act decicively and robustly (and it will ,she has no other choice)
There was quiet and these demented individuals broke the quiet with a view to terrorizing Israelis. This story has played itself out time after time. You say that Israel starves them. Well, none of them look starved and their stores are full of food. Moreover, there is plenty of food that can come from their brothers to the east. There are hospitals to the east and there are hospitals in Gaza, though many of those are used as launching pads for hospitals. If it were hate, Israel would be on the offensive. Its not hate, its self defence. Our predecessors in Europe did nothng to defend themselves and they are not Jewish anymore. They are part of the mass graves of Europe. For the first time we are not a bunch of idiots. Gazans are. They are demented and poisoned with hate and delusion. Not strking back did nothing to stem the flow of rockets in the many years before Caste Lead. Thousands of rockets hit Israeli soil. Israelis were killed. Schools were closed and Israelis were terrorized. Your post is outrageous and sounds like you are simply a demented and delusional and deceptive Pal clothed as a Jew.
was stealing their land not striking back?
Shin Bet was able to infiltrate the Gaza terror organizations through and through. One notable failure was finding out where Shalit was held, but this can be explained by the very small number of people in the know. A much BIGGER failure is to infiltrate the settler terrorist groups. Should be FAR EASIER than in Gaza. What are you doing wrong there, dear capable people?
That they might have tried during Cast Lead and could not,what makes you think they TRIED NOT.. You are an obtuse and degenarete old codger who thinks there is a remedy for everithing.Wring as though HE can prognostikate it from the comfort of chair & keypad computer. Amazing ...
To be an apologist requires more brains than to write comments, because the apologist must "appear" more sensible. You are a few ranks below par.
But I bet the brainless Left still disagrees
5:0 A further quality proof of the Israeli killing machinery. You can be very proud of your most moral army of the world. They know, how to kill unprotected civilians. Israel don´t need a court. They kill every suspect immediately. Good luck for your future.
Did you not read the news? Those who were martyred are terrorist who are firing at Israel's unprotected civilians. We are proud of our moral army.
Killing this missile firing squad was killing "unprotected civilians?" The left is depraved.
You're an ---. Name one country on earth in war that seeks an equal kill ration, no you try to kill more of the enemy. That is war.....its not a video game. So should Israel send five people to the border and allow them to get shot?
no civilians died
Iwish Haaretz and others would call them what they really are(Pure cold blooded terrorists) We are being too politically correct nowadays..Not only here but in my country as well as most of the world too are using this word FAR too lightly..
So says Israel. If they can pick out 5 militants among the million and a half people in Gaza, why can they not identify the settler criminals in the West Bank and shoot them?
Israel ... you just opened the door to HELL ....
then peace will be achieved
Their wish came true. 72 virgins for all of them! Voila!
Just words ,& more of the same
How do you say in Arabic the following excuse: "Just another isolated terrorist burp from (non-occupied) Gaza"?
Look to yourselves for the core of the problem.
tell me what exactly does and says the israeli government when a bunch of israelis kill or harass palestinians on a daily basis ? self defense ? minority ? nothing ? keep your lessons please.
Tell me if I am wrong.Then I can reminde you how I know..
I don't understand our govenment policy. We kill them, we're making them starve, we're isolating them from the world, we're allowing their sick ones to die without any medical treatment. This not Judaism I believe in, this is pure hate...Then we should expect more rockets to be fired aginst us...Are we bunch of idiots??????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Gaza is awash with goods. Israel treats the sick in Gaza for free. The borders between Egypt and Gaza are open. These are all lies you are espousing.
Simply jihadist lies. Hundreds of trucks enter Gaza each day
You kill them because they are constantly attacking you. They are not starving. I have not seen one starving Palestinian ever. Every picture I see is of healthy fat women and children. And lots of food on the shelves. Each and every Palestinian in Israel is covered by the government medicare system.
Yup, you still have that slave mentality.
But,being starved FOR attention,you stupidly gave him A PLATFORM.. Very unwise of Dan,Arnold,& Chaim. Oh well
Really. You must live in an alternate universe, wake up man and just for once see the reality