Two Israelis wounded by shrapnel from Grad type rocket

Karachi News.Net
Saturday 3rd January, 2009

More than twenty projectiles, including rockets were fired at Israel on Saturday morning.

A Grad type rocket scored a direct hit on an 8-story building in Ashdod. Two people were lightly wounded by shrapnel while at least three others were treated for shock.

The Jerualem Post reported a number of other buildings were also damaged by rockets on Saturday.

One rocket hit a cafeteria in a kibbutz on the Gaza periphery, another slammed into a courtyard of a house in Ashkelon, sparking a fire, a third hit a playground in the city, while a fourth damaged a building in the Ashkelon beach area, the 'Post reported. Netivot, Sderot, Gan Yavne, Kiryat Malachi, the Sha'ar Hanegev region, and the Eshkol region also reported rocket strikes.

Nobody was wounded in any of the attacks.

The morning volley followed a barrage of 36 rockets on Friday in which seven people were lightly wounded and three residential buildings were damaged, said The Jerusalem Post.

"Firing rockets into civilian areas with the intent to harm and terrorize Israelis has no justification whatsoever, regardless of Israel's actions in Gaza," Joe Stork, deputy director of Human Rights Watch's Middle East and North Africa division said earlier this week.

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