Chairman Yair Farjoun of the Ashkelon Coast Council said, Tuesday morning, "We are preparing for every scenario, and if we have to evacuate, we will."
Interviewed by Israel Defense Forces Radio in response to reports of new, deadlier short-range Hamas rockets, Farjoun said, "Civilians should not be at the forefront. That's how it was done in 1948, and that's how it was done in the Yom Kippur War. If there is a war and there is a threat to the citizens, there is no need to be right inside the 'boom'."