An adjacent empty computer classroom suffered damage, and several students were treated on the site for shock. If the shell had landed on hard asphalt instead of sand, it would have caused extensive damage and probably bodily injury, according to Gush Katif Regional Council spokeswoman Debbie Rosen. A direct hit on the classroom would have spelled disaster.
A mortar shell also landed in a school’s basketball court last week, but all of the children were in their classrooms and escaped injury.
More than 4800 mortar shells have landed in Gush Katif since the beginning of the war more than four years ago, Rosen told Arutz 7. “The Army says it is doing the ‘maximum.’ If so, why are (the Arabs) still shooting? How many times a day can a prime minister turn his head and pretend that he just doesn’t see?”
She said many of the communities 8000 residents have staged daily protests at the Army’s headquarters in the area. “We blocked the roads to the Army,” Rosen added. She explained that no one wants to interfere with Army patrols. “Our intention is that this will get to those higher up in command.”
In another incident, farmers from a Gush Katif community are suffering extensive damage after being forced to stay home from work due to the discovery Saturday afternoon of two very powerful bombs. They were planted next to the village’s security fence. Almost all of the Netzer Hazani’s residents work in vegetable hothouses which are on the road that passes by the fence. The Army does not expect to be able neutralize the explosives until Monday.
“Trucks were supposed to load crops for export Sunday morning, but no one was allowed to approach the hothouses,” Rosen said. Gush Katif has been a pioneer developer in hothouse agriculture which grows tomatoes, celery, herbs, peppers and other vegetables.
A mortar shell also landed in a school’s basketball court last week, but all of the children were in their classrooms and escaped injury.
More than 4800 mortar shells have landed in Gush Katif since the beginning of the war more than four years ago, Rosen told Arutz 7. “The Army says it is doing the ‘maximum.’ If so, why are (the Arabs) still shooting? How many times a day can a prime minister turn his head and pretend that he just doesn’t see?”
She said many of the communities 8000 residents have staged daily protests at the Army’s headquarters in the area. “We blocked the roads to the Army,” Rosen added. She explained that no one wants to interfere with Army patrols. “Our intention is that this will get to those higher up in command.”
In another incident, farmers from a Gush Katif community are suffering extensive damage after being forced to stay home from work due to the discovery Saturday afternoon of two very powerful bombs. They were planted next to the village’s security fence. Almost all of the Netzer Hazani’s residents work in vegetable hothouses which are on the road that passes by the fence. The Army does not expect to be able neutralize the explosives until Monday.
“Trucks were supposed to load crops for export Sunday morning, but no one was allowed to approach the hothouses,” Rosen said. Gush Katif has been a pioneer developer in hothouse agriculture which grows tomatoes, celery, herbs, peppers and other vegetables.