Palestinian Authority terrorists in Gaza launched a Kassam rocket attack on a western Negev kibbutz Tuesday evening. At least one rocket exploded in an agricultural field belonging to the Sdot Negev Regional Council in the Gaza Belt region, less than 10 seconds after the first Color Red incoming missile alert siren was activated.
No one was injured, and no damage was reported.
"No one got excited, and no one ran," one eyewitness told Israel National News. The 400 to 500 guests attending a local wedding "just continued with their dinner," he said. A text message that was sent out following the explosion informed residents that the Color Red alert system had been activated and that a rocket had landed south of the kibbutz. However, it reassured members of the community,"The bride and groom, and their guests are all well."
Members of the kibbutz that owned the field said they also expect there will be a retaliatory response by the IDF within the next 24 hours, and "life will go on." They added that they've grown accustomed to the attacks, which they said occur nowadays every couple of weeks, "just to let us know they are still there." Several months ago, a chicken coop was hit.
"If you have a shelter built in your house, you run into that shelter. If you don't, then you stay wherever you are," said another man. "What can you do? There's no time to run, and nowhere to run to."
The most recent Kassam rocket landed outside the kibbutz in the middle of the night during the holiday of Yom Kippur, the holiest day on the Jewish calendar. However, not one rocket has actually landed inside the kibbutz itself since the IDF's counterterrorist Operation Cast Lead was carried out in Gaza last January.