3 injured after rockets hit Sderot
At least 18 rockets fall on Sderot area in last 24 hours; rocket hits parked car and causes fire; woman lightly injured by shrapnel, 2 women suffer shock
Palestinians fired two Qassam rockets from northern Gaza at Sderot Monday night. One rocket struck a parked car and caused a fire.
Magen David Adom paramedics treated a woman lightly injured by rocket shrapnel, and she was taken to the Barzilai Hospital in Ashkelon. Two women suffered shock and received treatment on the scene.
An additional rocket apparently landed in open territory.
At least 18 rockets landed in and around Sderot in the last 24 hours. One rocket landed near a gas station, and another two landed in open spaces in the city.
Police sources said during the afternoon that if the rocket had landed a few meters closer to the gas station, a major disaster would have ensued.
Two additional rockets landed near the adjacent industrial zone. Workers in factories reported sounds of very loud explosives. Police forces scanned the entire area, but eventually concluded that the rockets fell in open areas.
Peretz: Warnings high
Defense Minister Amir Peretz said during a Labor faction meeting that "since Saturday night a large rise in the level of warnings and attacks on communities bordering Gaza has taken place."
He added: "I am a Sderot resident and opposite my home there are demonstrations of citizens, some of whom are my friends and my family from the neighborhood in which I grew up. With that I want it to be clear that an escalation is not an aim, and neither is restraint. We need to strive for calm."
Attila Somfalvi contributed to this report
