Rocket barrage from Gaza
Rocket barrage from GazaReuters

One person was critically wounded on Friday evening, when a rocket fired from Gaza exploded in the city of Gan Yavne, in the Ashdod region.

Two other people were lightly wounded from the rocket, which reportedly hit a vehicle.

Magen David Adom paramedics took the victims to the Kaplan Hospital in Rehovot.

The attack comes hours after a four-year-old was killed when a mortar launched from the northern Gaza Strip directly slammed into a car.

The incident occurred in a kibbutz in the Sha'ar Hanegev regional council. According to Channel 2 News, terrorists in Gaza fired a barrage of mortars at the kibbutz, one of which exploded in a location near where the boy was standing.

The boy sustained critical injuries, and rescue services rushed him to hospital. A short time later, he was pronounced dead.

Gaza terrorists fired more than 90 rockets at Israel on Friday, and the attacks have continued throughout the evening.

A rocket fired earlier on Friday afternoon caused considerable damage to a synagogue in the southern Israeli city of Ashdod.

Also on Friday, a rocket struck just 12 meters from a kindergarten packed with children and teachers. It was part of a five-rocket salvo from Gaza; the Iron Dome intercepted two others over the city of Ashkelon, and three fell on communities in the western Negev, one of which struck close to the kindergarten.

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