Arabs bombarded Sderot and the Western Negev with 9 rockets Monday morning. One landed in the yard of a house causing damage. Another nearly hit a gas pipeline. No injuries were reported.
Barely 12 hours earlier in Sderot, three family members – two parents and a 13-year-old teenager, as well as another 11-year-old child were sent to Barzilai Hospital in Ashkelon after an attack Sunday evening. The three family members were injured by shattered glass; all four victims suffered from shock.
The head of the Industrial Union, Chairman Nir Klinger, demanded on Sunday that a rocket-alert system be installed in the city’s industrial zone. Klinger met Sunday with IDF Southern Command Chief Maj.-Gen. Yoav Galant to discuss the matter.
The Red Dawn (renamed ‘Color Red’ by the residents) alert system installed within the city does not reach the factory area, depriving workers of the brief 15-second or less warning that would allow them to make a run for the shelters when a rocket is launched.
The industrial zone in Sderot has been a frequent target of the Kassam attacks. Despite the fact that all factories are required to be equipped with bomb shelters, workers rarely make use of them since they never know when an attack is on the way.
Defense Minister Amir Peretz told cabinet ministers at Sunday’s weekly cabinet meeting that he is making the development of an anti-Kassam rocket defense system a priority.
Peretz stated that appropriate agencies will also investigate similar systems that are already in existence, as efforts continue to bring an end to the attacks now plaguing Sderot and western Negev communities.
During the meeting, ministers decided to order fortification for all kindergartens, day care centers and schools in Sderot and all other communities located near the border with Gaza.
The defense establishment, meanwhile, is considering a plan to install a system to intercept the rockets during their trajectory, rather than fortify some 8,000 homes in Sderot and elsewhere in the Negev.
The Director General of the Defense Ministry, Maj. Gen. (Res.) Gabi Ashkenazi reportedly recommended that the government invest its funding in an anti-rocket system rather than focus its efforts on fortification of structures within the city.
Barely 12 hours earlier in Sderot, three family members – two parents and a 13-year-old teenager, as well as another 11-year-old child were sent to Barzilai Hospital in Ashkelon after an attack Sunday evening. The three family members were injured by shattered glass; all four victims suffered from shock.
The head of the Industrial Union, Chairman Nir Klinger, demanded on Sunday that a rocket-alert system be installed in the city’s industrial zone. Klinger met Sunday with IDF Southern Command Chief Maj.-Gen. Yoav Galant to discuss the matter.
The Red Dawn (renamed ‘Color Red’ by the residents) alert system installed within the city does not reach the factory area, depriving workers of the brief 15-second or less warning that would allow them to make a run for the shelters when a rocket is launched.
The industrial zone in Sderot has been a frequent target of the Kassam attacks. Despite the fact that all factories are required to be equipped with bomb shelters, workers rarely make use of them since they never know when an attack is on the way.
Defense Minister Amir Peretz told cabinet ministers at Sunday’s weekly cabinet meeting that he is making the development of an anti-Kassam rocket defense system a priority.
Peretz stated that appropriate agencies will also investigate similar systems that are already in existence, as efforts continue to bring an end to the attacks now plaguing Sderot and western Negev communities.
During the meeting, ministers decided to order fortification for all kindergartens, day care centers and schools in Sderot and all other communities located near the border with Gaza.
The defense establishment, meanwhile, is considering a plan to install a system to intercept the rockets during their trajectory, rather than fortify some 8,000 homes in Sderot and elsewhere in the Negev.
The Director General of the Defense Ministry, Maj. Gen. (Res.) Gabi Ashkenazi reportedly recommended that the government invest its funding in an anti-rocket system rather than focus its efforts on fortification of structures within the city.