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12:15 PM
Reut R. Cohen
Palestinian terrorists in Gaza fire rockets at Israel
An Israeli inspects the damage to an Ashkelon building hit by a rocket Friday.
Aid to Gaza has continued despite Hamas claims of a humanitarian crisis:On Thursday, Col. Moshe Levi, commander of the IDF's Gaza Coordination and Liaison Administration (CLA), rejected Palestinian claims of a humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip.
He told the Jerusalem Post that that since Sunday over 330 trucks carrying food, medicine and medical supplies had been allowed into the Gaza Strip despite the daily rocket barrages against the South.
In addition, the CLA has facilitated the transfer of 10 ambulances and 2,000 blood units to Gaza, and has approved a Palestinian request to allow three Gazans wounded in the fighting into Israel for medical treatment, Levi said.
He stressed that Hamas terrorists were using civilian infrastructure in the Gaza Strip - including hospitals, mosques and areas next to offices of international aid groups - to conduct terrorist activity and fire rockets at Israel.
Hamas continues to launch rockets at Israel rather than heed the international community's (including Egypt) advice and stop the firing of kassam and Grad-type missiles (courtesy of Iran). Currently one-eighth of the Israeli population is within range of Hamas rocket fire:
Palestinian terrorists in the Gaza Strip launched a volley of rockets at Israel on Friday afternoon, with some 35 projectiles pounding the area, three civilians wounded, and three residential buildings damaged.
In the latest barrage, seven rockets exploded in the Ashkelon area, with one scoring a direct hit on a house. Five civilian were lightly wounded in the attack and five were treated for shock, Israel Radio reported. A car was also damaged by one of the rockets.
Simultaneously, rockets were fired at the Eshkol and Sderot regions.
Also Friday, a man and woman sustained light shrapnel wounds in Ashkelon as two Grad rockets hit residential areas of the city, each striking an apartment building and causing substantial damage. Two more rockets landed in open areas of the city.
Additionally, a Kassam rocket hit an electric cable in Sderot, leading to power cuts in the town, and another hit a Sdot Negev greenhouse.
No casualties or damage were reported in the latter attacks, but several people were treated for shock.
Since the start of Operation Cast Lead on Saturday, three Israeli civilians and one soldier have been killed in rocket attacks, which have reached deeper into Israel than ever before, bringing one-eighth of the population of 7 million within rocket range.
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