Israeli President Shimon Peres briefed U.S. President Barack Obama on Wednesday about Israel\’s killing of the Hamas military commander in Gaza, saying the man was a \”mass-murderer\”, Peres\’s office said in a statement.
Israel\’s Defense Minister Ehud Barak said the current episode of rocket fire from Gaza is not over, during a visit to the border with Gaza.
More than 65 rockets were fired into southern Israel from the Gaza Strip on Wednesday, wounding five people, two of them seriously, and causing extensive property damage, Israel Hayom reported.
Israel\’s Air Force struck a terrorist base in Gaza hours after Kassam rockets fired from Gaza struck Sderot.
A rocket fired from the Gaza Strip into Israel hit a house near Sderot on Friday morning, but no one was injured.
As the school year got underway for more than two million Israeli students across the country on Monday, a rocket fired from the Gaza Strip exploded in open territory in the Sha’ar Hanegev Regional Council in southern Israel—midway between Beersheba and Ashkelon—causing no damage.
At least four Kassam rockets fired from Gaza struck southern Israel.
Israel advocacy organization Hasbara Fellowships, which recruits and trains American and Canadian college students to become pro-Israel activists on their campuses, raised $1,000 this past summer for a soup kitchen in Sderot, a southern Israeli town often hit by rocket attacks launched from the Gaza Strip.
The United States will help Israel buy four more Iron Dome short-range anti-missile systems, a Pentagon official said.
Gaza Strip terrorists launched rockets into Israel.
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