Beersheba - Israeli Killed, Dozens Hurt by More Than 50 Rockets Fired from Gaza
Israeli security officers inspect a damaged house hit by a rocket fired by Palestinian militants from the Gaza Strip in the southern Israeli city of Beersheba,
Saturday, Aug. 20, 2011. Israel's rescue service says one Israeli was killed and about a dozen injured in barrage of Palestinian rockets from Gaza on southern Israel.
Beersheba - Israel’s rescue service says one Israeli was killed and about a dozen injured in barrage of Palestinian rockets from Gaza on southern Israel.
The rescue service said one person as killed in the desert city of Beersheba. Three people were seriously hurt when a Palestinian rocket hit a house and a car in the same city.
Two children and a 4-month-old baby were injured by rocket shrapnel that hit a house in nearby Ofakim.
Some rockets were intercepted by the new Israeli anti-missile system known as Iron Dome.
Israel carried out multiple airstrikes on targets in Gaza over the weekend, killing at least seven militants.
Violence began when attackers from Gaza ambushed vehicles in southern Israel on Thursday, killing eight people.
The man killed in a Grad rocket attack on Beersheba on Saturday evening has been identified as Yossi Shushan, 38, of Ofakim.
Shushan was on his way to pick up his wife, who is nine months pregnant, from her brother’s home in Beersheba, when the air raid siren sounded.
He got out of his car and suffered a fatal injury to his head.
Israel carried out multiple airstrikes on targets in Gaza over the weekend, killing at least seven militants.
Violence began when attackers from Gaza ambushed vehicles in southern Israel on Thursday, killing eight people.
