GAZA: ROCKETS ON SDEROT; HIT SCHOOL, CITY WORN OUT
(ANSAmed) - TEL AVIV, APRIL 30 - Over ten Qassam rockets were
fired today from the north of the Gaza Strip towards Israeli
Neghev, particularly towards to city of Sderot. No victims were
reported.
Local sources specified that one of the rockets exploded
inside the courtyard of a school, while the classrooms were
being opened. Another exploded near a petrol station, one blew
up in a truck depot. In the area of the crossing of Erez,
Palestinian militants have also opened fired against an Israeli
patrol. No victims were reported.
Yesterday, during a conversation with Israeli Prime Minister
Ehud Olmert, the mayor of Sderot, Ely Moyal, pointed out that
the population, after years of almost daily bombings by the
Palestinians, is exhausted. According to Moyal, some 15% of the
20,000 inhabitants of the city have moved somewhere else.
(ANSAmed).
2008-04-30 09:59