Two people were killed - a 49-year-old man and his four-year-old grandchild - and at least 14 injured this morning at about 8:30am when terrorists from Gaza launched two Kassam rockets into the city of Sderot in southern Israel.
The victims have been identified as Mordechai Yosefov, of Sderot, and Mordechai's grandson, Afik Zahavi. Afik was critically injured when a Kassam rocket slammed into the pathway into his kindergarten; he was pronounced dead in the trauma unit of the Soroka Medical Center. His mother, Ruti Zahavi, remains in serious condition in the same hospital, as does one other person. Twelve other victims are described in light condition and are being treated for hysteria. They have been transported to the Barzalai Hospital in Ashkelon. State psychologists are attending to the traumatized kindergarten children who lost a classmate to Arab terrorism this morning.
A second rocket landed in a Sderot shopping center at around the same time. Several hours later, a third Kassam rocket landed in Kiryat Chinuch in the Sha'ar HaNegev area, near Sderot. There were no reports of injuries in the latter attacks.
A teacher at one of the cluster of kindergartens where the Palestinian Authority-launched rocket landed told Israel television's Channel 1: "If we can't bring our children to kindergarten safely, what kind of security do we have?"
The Hamas terrorist organization is boasting responsibility for killing the child and his grandfather in Sderot this morning.
A petition calling on the government of Israel to "put an immediate end to this shameful phenomenon of Israeli communities being bombed without an appropriate response" has been put online by residents of the towns of Gush Katif, in Gaza. As of today, Arab attackers have fired 4,160 rockets or mortars on Jewish towns in Gush Katif alone. (http://www.katif.net/patzmar/en_bpatzmar.php)
The victims have been identified as Mordechai Yosefov, of Sderot, and Mordechai's grandson, Afik Zahavi. Afik was critically injured when a Kassam rocket slammed into the pathway into his kindergarten; he was pronounced dead in the trauma unit of the Soroka Medical Center. His mother, Ruti Zahavi, remains in serious condition in the same hospital, as does one other person. Twelve other victims are described in light condition and are being treated for hysteria. They have been transported to the Barzalai Hospital in Ashkelon. State psychologists are attending to the traumatized kindergarten children who lost a classmate to Arab terrorism this morning.
A second rocket landed in a Sderot shopping center at around the same time. Several hours later, a third Kassam rocket landed in Kiryat Chinuch in the Sha'ar HaNegev area, near Sderot. There were no reports of injuries in the latter attacks.
A teacher at one of the cluster of kindergartens where the Palestinian Authority-launched rocket landed told Israel television's Channel 1: "If we can't bring our children to kindergarten safely, what kind of security do we have?"
The Hamas terrorist organization is boasting responsibility for killing the child and his grandfather in Sderot this morning.
A petition calling on the government of Israel to "put an immediate end to this shameful phenomenon of Israeli communities being bombed without an appropriate response" has been put online by residents of the towns of Gush Katif, in Gaza. As of today, Arab attackers have fired 4,160 rockets or mortars on Jewish towns in Gush Katif alone. (http://www.katif.net/patzmar/en_bpatzmar.php)