Post by Messenger on Mar 3, 2008 10:19:44 GMT -5
Three Katyushas on Ashkelon, Arab Violence Spreads
by Hillel Fendel
Hamas terrorists in Gaza continued to fire rockets at Israel, scoring two direct hits in the Negev and at least one direct hit in Ashkelon on Sunday. A woman was wounded by shrapnel, and many people were treated for trauma.
Three Grad Katyusha rockets were fired early Sunday evening at Ashkelon, and two of them landed in the city center. One house was hit directly. In Sderot, a factory was hit, as was a house in a nearby community. Other rockets hit areas termed "open" in the Eshkol and Shaar HaNegev areas of the western Negev, and continued to fall in the vicinity throughout the early afternoon.
Close to 30 rockets and mortar shells had been fired at the Negev and Ashkelon by 6 PM. Four soldiers were lightly wounded on Sunday, during the course of the IDF counter-terrorism's operation that began Friday night.
Meanwhile, Arabs throughout the Palestinian Authority attempted to open new fronts of anti-Israel violence. In Hevron, Bethlehm and elsewhere in Judea and Samaria, army forces were compelled to use force to contain Arab mobs, and 40 were injured. PA sources claimed that one Arab was killed. Three Israelis have been lightly wounded: An IDF officer in Tekoa, west of Bethlehem; a soldier in northern Jerusalem; and a civilian in Hevron.
In Shuafat, a northern Jerusalem Arab slum neighborhood, dozens of Arabs threw rocks at security forces and burned tires... On the Temple Mount, Arabs stoned visiting Jews, and then tried to roll a car down towards Israeli security forces; no one was hurt... In the western Shomron, near Avnei Heifetz, Palestinian terrorists fired at a passing car. The car happened to have been driven by an Israeli-Arab, and no one was hurt...
Arabs threw rocks and caused damage to property in Kiryat Arba, Beitar Illit and near Baka el-Garbiye in northwestern Shomron.
by Hillel Fendel
Hamas terrorists in Gaza continued to fire rockets at Israel, scoring two direct hits in the Negev and at least one direct hit in Ashkelon on Sunday. A woman was wounded by shrapnel, and many people were treated for trauma.
Three Grad Katyusha rockets were fired early Sunday evening at Ashkelon, and two of them landed in the city center. One house was hit directly. In Sderot, a factory was hit, as was a house in a nearby community. Other rockets hit areas termed "open" in the Eshkol and Shaar HaNegev areas of the western Negev, and continued to fall in the vicinity throughout the early afternoon.
Close to 30 rockets and mortar shells had been fired at the Negev and Ashkelon by 6 PM. Four soldiers were lightly wounded on Sunday, during the course of the IDF counter-terrorism's operation that began Friday night.
Meanwhile, Arabs throughout the Palestinian Authority attempted to open new fronts of anti-Israel violence. In Hevron, Bethlehm and elsewhere in Judea and Samaria, army forces were compelled to use force to contain Arab mobs, and 40 were injured. PA sources claimed that one Arab was killed. Three Israelis have been lightly wounded: An IDF officer in Tekoa, west of Bethlehem; a soldier in northern Jerusalem; and a civilian in Hevron.
In Shuafat, a northern Jerusalem Arab slum neighborhood, dozens of Arabs threw rocks at security forces and burned tires... On the Temple Mount, Arabs stoned visiting Jews, and then tried to roll a car down towards Israeli security forces; no one was hurt... In the western Shomron, near Avnei Heifetz, Palestinian terrorists fired at a passing car. The car happened to have been driven by an Israeli-Arab, and no one was hurt...
Arabs threw rocks and caused damage to property in Kiryat Arba, Beitar Illit and near Baka el-Garbiye in northwestern Shomron.
And so it continues.
Bill
