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Grad rocket hits construction site in Ashkelon
Israel Matzav —
Grad rocket hits construction site in Ashkelon [image] A grad-type Katyusha rocket shot from Gaza hit a construction site in Ashkelon on Monday morning. One person was killed and sixteen (my information is more up-to-date than the JPost article to which this post links) were wounded, five of them seriously. According to Channel 2, the missile hit the top floor of the building, which did not yet have a roof. Magen David Adom ambulances evacuated all the people wounded in the attacks to Barzilai Hospital in Ashkelon. Most of the people at the site were Arab construction workers from Rahat and the Manda village in the Galilee. According to initial reports, several ...
Israel Presses Home Air Assault on Hamas
A Blog For All —
... an Arab construction worker there Monday and wounded several others. He was the second Israeli killed since the beginning of the offensive, and the first person ever to be killed by a rocket in Ashkelon, a city of 120,000. On Sunday, Hamas missiles struck for the first time near the city of Ashdod, twice as far from Gaza as Ashkelon and only 25 miles (40 kilometers) from Israel's heart in Tel Aviv. Hamas leaders have also threatened to renew suicide attacks inside Israel. More than 50 rockets and mortars were fired by Hamas today. ...
'Hamas' military capabilities have hardly been dented'
Israel Matzav —
'Hamas' military capabilities have hardly been dented' [image] For those of you who believe that the war is going to end by the end of this week (and I'm going to guess that most of you who believe that live outside of Israel), here's a splash of cold water (Hat Tip: Hot Air ). Though the rocket count was down from previous days (and well short of the 200 that Israeli officials believe Hamas is able to fire), Israeli military sources tell TIME that they believe Hamas' military capabilities have hardly been dented . And while Israeli strikes killed a senior Hamas police official on the first morning of the assault and an Islamic Jihad military commander in ...
