Moyal near his house
Photo: Tzafrir Abayov
Qassam lands next to Sderot mayor's home
Palestinian gunmen launch Qassam rocket into Sderot and it lands next to Mayor Eli Moyal's house. He tells Ynet: 'I sat at home in living room and I was thrown from my chair from force of explosion'
A Qassam rocket fell Saturday evening next to the house of Sderot Mayor Eli Moyal. As of now, there are no reports of injuries. In the past few days, rockets have been fired frequently at Sderot. Precisely a week ago a rocket directly hit a house in Sderot. Two residents were lightly wounded and another seven suffered shock in the incident.
Qassam's landing site (Photo: Tzafrir Abayov)
The rocket landed next to the mayor's house while he was at home. "I sat at home in the living room and I was thrown from my chair from the force of the explosion," Moyal told Ynet. "I immediately understood that it was a Qassam rocket. I went out to check if any of the neighbors were hurt. To my happiness, there are no injuries except for a few suffering from shock, but there is damage to my house and to other houses. This is mainly damage to window panes and the walls of the houses."
"Unfortunately, this firing continues like on other day and just doesn't stop. If the rocket had landed another 10 meters in, we would have had to bury people tonight." Moyal, who occasionally attacks the weakness of the government in dealing with the rocket threat, said, "Nothing has been done about this matter. Just as we say all the time, this embarrassment of Qassam firings at Sderot needs to be stopped. We are at the end of a holiday and before the intermediate days of the holiday and instead of celebrating we are sustaining Qassam rockets."
The IDF continues to take action against terrorist cells that fire the rockets.
