Arabs fired mortar shells on Jewish homes last night, one of which landed in Netzer Chazani, along Israel\'s southern Mediterranean coast. Eti Arbiv told Arutz-7 Israel National Radio how she was injured: \"We heard the explosions, and I decided to evacuate my girls to a safe room. After transferring my youngest child, I was on my way to get the next one, and suddenly a shell landed between our house and the neighbors. The blast blew open our door, and a shell fragment penetrated my arm.\" Arbiv was treated at Be\'er Sheva\'s Soroka Hospital.
Gush Katif Regional Head Aharon Tzur said today, \"approximately 26 mortar rockets fell yesterday, and 9 today. This is an unprecedented number. I say that if Israel doesn\'t silence the shelling here, those inside the Green Line will not be spared; it will reach Tel Aviv. The Arabs don\'t differentiate between Jews because they are on one side of the Green Line or the other.\"
The list of Arab shooting and grenade attacks broadcast on Israel\'s airwaves sounds more like a detailed weather report. Last night and today, the targets included the area east of Netanya (where the IDF also dispersed a violent Arab riot), a road south of Shechem, Gadid, areas north and south of Jerusalem, P\'sagot, the Ayosh junction, Susia, Nvei D\'kalim (southern coast), the Egyptian border, and a road south of Hevron. Arab snipers also fired into Jewish homes in Hevron last night; the IDF did not return fire. Hevron\'s Jews have endured more shooting attacks than perhaps any other area of Israel. Hevron spokesmen issued a statement last night which reads in part:
\"Ten months of shooting attacks on Hevron\'s Jewish community, and nothing has changed. Israeli forces return the gunfire, but are unable to stop the attacks. Yesterday night an entire family came under attack only meters from where 10-month-old Shalhevet Pass was murdered. Only a miracle prevented another tragedy. The families in Tel Rumeida have no protection from Arafat\'s terrorist bullets, even in their own homes. Yet Ariel Sharon\'s government refrains from granting the necessary permits allowing construction of normal stone homes in the neighborhood. Huge Arab homes surround the Jewish mobile homes. The Arabs are safe, they live in protected houses. Jewish lives are in jeopardy; they live in houses with almost paper-thin walls.\"
Gush Katif Regional Head Aharon Tzur said today, \"approximately 26 mortar rockets fell yesterday, and 9 today. This is an unprecedented number. I say that if Israel doesn\'t silence the shelling here, those inside the Green Line will not be spared; it will reach Tel Aviv. The Arabs don\'t differentiate between Jews because they are on one side of the Green Line or the other.\"
The list of Arab shooting and grenade attacks broadcast on Israel\'s airwaves sounds more like a detailed weather report. Last night and today, the targets included the area east of Netanya (where the IDF also dispersed a violent Arab riot), a road south of Shechem, Gadid, areas north and south of Jerusalem, P\'sagot, the Ayosh junction, Susia, Nvei D\'kalim (southern coast), the Egyptian border, and a road south of Hevron. Arab snipers also fired into Jewish homes in Hevron last night; the IDF did not return fire. Hevron\'s Jews have endured more shooting attacks than perhaps any other area of Israel. Hevron spokesmen issued a statement last night which reads in part:
\"Ten months of shooting attacks on Hevron\'s Jewish community, and nothing has changed. Israeli forces return the gunfire, but are unable to stop the attacks. Yesterday night an entire family came under attack only meters from where 10-month-old Shalhevet Pass was murdered. Only a miracle prevented another tragedy. The families in Tel Rumeida have no protection from Arafat\'s terrorist bullets, even in their own homes. Yet Ariel Sharon\'s government refrains from granting the necessary permits allowing construction of normal stone homes in the neighborhood. Huge Arab homes surround the Jewish mobile homes. The Arabs are safe, they live in protected houses. Jewish lives are in jeopardy; they live in houses with almost paper-thin walls.\"