One person was moderately wounded on Sunday after Palestinian terrorists in north Gaza launched a Qassam rocket toward the western Negev. Several other people suffered shock.
The victim, who suffered severe shrapnel wounds all over his body, was treated by emergency medical teams at the scene then transferred to Ashkelon's Barzilai Hospital.
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Rockets fired from Gaza land in open areas in western Negev; no injuries or damage reported. Five Qassams fired at Israel during weekend, one hits house in Sderot on Saturday. Meanwhile, Hamas refuses to halt Qassam attacks |
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Eyewitnesses said the rocket, the fifth fired by Palestinian terrorists since the morning hours, landed near a gas station.
The al-Quds Brigades, Islamic Jihad’s armed wing, claimed responsibility for the attack, saying its men fired an upgraded Quds 3 rocket as “a response to the Israeli crimes and the targeted killing of Palestinian activists in the West Bank.”
Worse damages were narrowly evaded as the rocket landed just meters from a gas station. The injured man was employed at the gas station's carwash.
She'ar Hanegev Regional Council head Alon Shuster, whose offices are just a few dozen meters from the site of the attack, described the incident.
"We heard the whistle then the massive blast," Shuster told Ynet. "I hurried out and I saw teams treating the injured man and the shock victims. We were so lucky, because if the rocket had hit just a few meters away, inside the gas station, there could have been a massive disaster here."
"No one (from the government) has called yet to speak with us about what's happening here, and we feel alone," he added.
Earlier Sunday four rockets landed in open areas in the western Negev, causing no damages or injuries. Two landed near Sderot and two landed near the border with south Gaza.
Over the weekend Palestinian Qassam cells fired five rockets
at Israeli communities, one of which caused severe damage to a Sderot home. The family was not at home at the time, and no one was hurt.
On Saturday Hamas politburo chief Khaled Mashaal declared
that the rocket fire would not stop, and he rejected an American proposal which called on the Palestinians to stop Qassam attacks and weapons smuggling and on Israel
to ease Palestinian travel restrictions.
Dorit Siton, Hanan Greenberg and Ali Waked contributed to the report
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