Ashdod, Kiryat Gat and Be'er Sheva are next in line to be the targets of Arab terrorists' rocket attacks, IDF military intelligence chief Major General Amos Yadlin said in an interview with the Hebrew newspaper Haaretz. He made the comments before Wednesday's rocket attack on a shopping area in the port city of Ashkelon, several miles south of Ashdod.

"Every community within a 40-kilometer (25-mile) range may come within range of the Hamas rockets," he predicted.