Gaza terrorists fired several short-range rockets at Israeli communities on Monday. Two were fired on Monday night, one of them hitting the ground near a western Negev kibbutz.
One woman suffered from shock and was treated at the scene. She refused to be taken to a hospital for further treatment.
The attacks came shortly after the Popular Resistance Committees (PRC) in Gaza declared that a temporary ceasefire between Gaza terrorists and Israel was officially over. Israeli officials and senior members of Hamas have insisted that the ceasefire is still in effect despite dozens of terrorist rocket attacks over the past several days.
Kadima head Tzipi Livni addressed the issue on Monday, saying, “There is no such thing as a partial ceasefire... If the ceasefire violations continue, Israel will see no impediment to action.”
Israel's response to rocket fire will not be affected by the identity of the group firing each rocket, Livni said. Whether or not the terrorists who fire a specific rocket belong to Hamas, “Hamas is responsible, they are the address,” she said.
Eitan: How is our blood different?
Deputy Defense Minister Matan Vilnai responded to the renewed attacks as well, and said Israel would not allow Gaza terrorists to increase their range of attack. Israel cannot accept rocket fire on Ashdod, Netivot, or Kiryat Gat, he said.
Vilnai's warning angered MK Michael Eitan (Likud). “Deputy Minister Vilnai's mention of the cities upon which Kassam attacks will not be met with silence shows that the communities currently in the range of the Kassams have been abandoned,” he said.
"If terrorists are allowed to bomb certain towns, why have those towns not been evacuated?” Eitan continued. “I demand that he retract his statement or clarify how the blood of those in Ashkelon, Sderot and the Gaza belt is different from the blood of those in Ashdod, Netivot, Kiryat Gat, Tel Aviv and Jerusalem.”