PA Rockets Hit Sderot Homes, Three Civilians Badly Injured

by Gil Ronen and Nissan Ratzlav-Katz

(IsraelNN.com) A 45-year-old resident of Sderot was gravely injured Tuesday evening when a rocket fired from Gaza hit her home in Sderot. She was injured in the head and stomach. Her son, who was in the house with her, was injured also: his injuries are defined as "moderately serious." Two other people who were in the house were lightly injured, and others are suffering from shock.

One rocket scored a direct hit on 'Gil' elementary school.

In a separate attack Tuesday night, a Sderot man was moderately wounded by shrapnel. Four bystanders suffered from shock. Yehuda Shoshan, Director of Magen David Adom in the Negev, said the injured were all taken to Barzilai Hospital in Ashkelon for treatment.

Terrorists have launched nearly 20 rockets at Sderot and nearby towns Tuesday night, and are threatening to launch dozens more. Two rockets landed in open fields near the city. One rocket scored a direct hit on 'Gil' elementary school, but the school was already empty of children. Other rockets tore up areas outside several Negev kibbutzim. PA terrorists also fired two mortar rounds at a kibbutz near Gaza. The rounds landed in an open field without causing injuries or damage.

At least two homes have been severly damaged in Sderot and a fire broke out at Kibbutz Or HaNer as a result of the PA rocket barrage.