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      Photo Essay: Southern Israel Under Fire

      Sderot is facing more powerful rockets and Ashkelon is now within range as well. Arutz-7 brings you photos of the aftermath of rocket strikes...
      By Ezra HaLevi
      First Publish: 3/2/2008, 1:29 PM

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      Sderot is facing more powerful rockets and Ashkelon is now within range as well. Arutz-7 brings you photos of the aftermath of rocket strikes...

      Members of the local ZAKA unit collect body parts and blood of a victim of a Kassam rocket attack for burial
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      A rooftop punctured by a Grad-type Katyusha in Ashkelon
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      The bombed-out living room of a home in Ashkelon struck by a Grad-type Katyusha rocket
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      A home struck by a Grad-type Katyusha rocket in Ashkelon
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      A young girl from Sderot at Ashkelon's Barzilai Hospital after being wounded by shrapnel in a Kassam rocket attack
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      A car struck by a rocket from Gaza lies charred
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      A man is put on an ambulance after being wounded in the explosion of a Kassam rocket from Gaza
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      A man wounded by shrapnel is put aboard an ambulance as medics wear protective gear during a Kassam barrage
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      Osher Twito, wounded by a Kassam rocket, in his bed in Ashkelon's Barzilai Hospital after having his leg amputated
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      A hole caused by a Kassam rocket explosion in Sderot
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      Sappers inspect an impact site of a Grad rocket in Ashkelon near the sea
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      A Sderot resident interrupted during prayers by a rocket shows a piece of shrapnel included in a Kassam rocket's explosive payload to inflict maximum casualties
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      The destroyed interior of a home struck by a Kassam rocket in Sderot
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      Students duck and cover beneath their desks when the Color Red alert system sounds
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      The Color Red alert system affords about ten to fifteen seconds to find cover before a rocket lands and detonates
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      Students have taken to singing songs about the Kassam rockets to relieve the tension while ducking beneath their desks when the alarm sounds
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      A destroyed vehicle struck by a Kassam rocket in Sderot
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      Fire fighters inspect a hole in a home caused by a Grad-type Katyusha rocket in Ashkelon
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      A man wounded in a Grad-type Katyusha rocket attack on Ashkelon
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      Medics evacuate the wounded during a Kassam rocket attack in Sderot
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      One of the "open areas" in which Kassam rockets fall outside Sderot, setting fires and destroying crops
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      A Kassam rocket ingites a wheat field outside Sderot
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      A charred wheat field after a Kassam rocket "landed in an open area outside Sderot, causing no injuries"
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      An IDF soldier stationed on the outskirts of Gaza prays the morning prayer and awaits the order to reenter the Hamas-controlled tract of the Land of Israel
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      * Click here for a video story about a Sderot teacher's song that youngsters sing to overcome the trauma of Kassam rocket attacks