Ten Year Old Seriously Wounded In Sderot Kassam Rocket Attack, 800 Rockets and Mortars Fired Since Beginning Of 2008

Ten-year-old Yossi Haimov was seriously wounded in a kassam rocket attack on Sderot at noon Monday.  Yossi was rushed to the Barzilai Hospital in Ashkelon with a partially severed arm. Hours later however the hospital's deputy director-general, Dr. Ron Lobel, informed his parents that the doctors had managed to save their son's arm which was badly injured in the rocket attack. "The surgery is not over, but as it seems at the moment, his arm was not damaged and he will be able to continue using it. He is still in the operation room," he said.  By Monday noon a total of five rockets were fired at the town, one landed in the industrial zone, another landed in a grove near a school and a third  hit a residential neighborhood, others fell outside the town The army said that since the beginning of the year over 800 kassam rockets and mortar shells were fired at Israel.02/25/08