Another Attack on Sderot...

A woman was wounded and evacuated to Ashkelon's Barzilai Hospital earlier today following an attack on Sderot. Several people were treated for shock and the victims' home sustained damage. Rocket and mortar shells that have been fired this month by Gaza terrorists did not hit homes or civilians until today. However, as I've previously stated, it's only a matter of time before one of these so-called "homemade rockets" hurts Israeli civilians.

In response the Israeli military targeted two weapons production sites in Gaza City and four smuggling tunnels on the Gaza-Egypt border.

Here is what the Jerusalem Post is reporting:

The rocket was a 115-millimeter projectile, a police source told the Jerusalem Post.

A police bomb disposal team retrieved the rocket's remains for analysis shortly after the attack.

"These are the types of rockets we have grown accustomed to seeing since 2008," the source added.

The attack came as Rome Mayor Gianni Alemanno was touring the town with Noam Schalit, father of captured IDF soldier Gilad Schalit. The two visited the home where the rocket landed, and Schalit told residents of the town he identified with their plight.

"We went through a war like this in the North and heard plenty of booms," he said. "Straight after arriving in Sderot, the Color Red warning siren was sounded and we heard the loud boom. Unfortunately we are all-too familiar with this."

Schalit added that he "doesn't envy Sderot residents" and that he wished the town quiet.

When asked about efforts to free his son, he said, "We are waiting patiently and hope to hear good news."

The Sderot residents told Schalit to intensify his fight.

"Your problem is that you're too gentle and polite, you need to shout," one of them said. "I am also a father and I know what it's like when they take a child from you. You shouldn't carry on like that."

Alemanno said he hoped the attack was an isolated incident and that it wouldn't lead to another war and more rocket-fire. He said the fundamentalists were a problem for the entire Western world, not just for Israelis, and vowed that the City of Rome would help Sderot residents repair the damage cause by the Gazan rockets.

He also said the city had decided to grant Gilad Schalit honorary citizenship and that Noam would be invited to the city to accept it on his behalf.

Tuesday's attack also came a day after Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu met US President Barack Obama in Washington and the latter said the situation in Sderot was unacceptable, adding that he'd seen the situation there himself.

Earlier Tuesday, Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) head Yuval Diskin told the Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee that there was "no chance for an effective peace process so long as Hamas rules the Gaza Strip."

Related Posts:
- IAF bombs 2 smuggling tunnels in Gaza
- Kassams Hit Southern Israel; 20 Percent of Sderot Under
- Katyushas in North, Kassams in South
- Gaza Terrorists Fire on Netivot, Attack Soldiers Protecting Crossings
- More 'ceasefire' fire from Hamas
- Another Hamas Violation of the Ceasefire
- Taking On Fraudulent White Phosphorus Allegations
- Scathing ‘insider’ report on UNWRA to hit Obama’s desk
- Letter to Gaza Citizen from an Israeli Soldier
- Hamas threw 'medicine grenades' at IDF

Posted in: Hamas,Islamic Terror,Sderot