Nine katyusha style Grad missiles rocked the center of Ashkelon on Thursday afternoon, one home suffered a direct hit, other missiles fell near the city's central bus station and elsewhere in the city. Magen David Adom reported that two people were lightly wounded in the attack and 24 others were treated for shock. All in all MADA have treated a total of 55 people in Ashkelon and Sderot since the morning.
On Thursday evening Defense Minister Ehud Barak ordered the authorities to activate the Red Color alert early warning system in Ashkelon which will be operational on Friday.
Close to 80 Kassam rockets and missiles have been fired at southern Israel in the past 24 hours and nearly 1000 since the beginning of the year.
On Thursday, the air force launched 21 air strikes targeting terorr operatives, headquarters and Kassam rocket launchers in the Gaza Strip, and since Wednesday evening, 27 Palestinians were killed in the Gaza Strip.
Government ministers demanded to convene a security cabinet meeting to discuss the situation. Earlier in the day several ministers demanded to retaliate harshly, flattening neighborhoods in Gaza in response to the escalation.
Earlier Thursday during a visit to the Sapir College, a guard in Internal Minister Avi Dichter's security detail was lightly wounded by shrapnel when a Kassam rocket fell in the college campus. Hamas is to blame for the situation Dichter said describing the terror organization as cruel. The impromptu press conference was abruptly interrupted when the Red Color alert was sounded and Dichter's security guards pushed the minister into a safe area. In Sderot two women were lightly wounded when a barrage of Kassam rockets hit the town.Another rocket fell in the town's industrial site hitting a factory which burst into flames.02/28/08
Margot Dudkevitch
Infolive.tv
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