Ten children and eight adults were treated for shock and a building was damaged after a Kassam rocket slammed into the yard of the Gil Elementary School in Sderot, just 40 meters from the building.

It was the third Kassam rocket to hit the western Negev Thursday morning. The Popular Resistance Committees' Salah a-Din Brigades terrorist gang claimed responsibility for the attack.

Four mortar shells were fired at Israel near the Kissufim crossing earlier in the day, with no injuries or damage reported.