Is Israel allowed to respond now that their rockets actually killed someone? Or are the poor israelis just "panicked" as Reuters has claimed ever time. I wonder how those same reporters would act if it was there home town which was getting bombarded by rockets on a daily basis.
As the IDF pushed ahead with its campaign against Kassam squads on Monday, a 35-year-old woman was killed in Sderot when a salvo of rockets pounded the western Negev and one hit her car.
Shortly after 8 p.m., five rockets were fired from Gaza and one struck the woman's car near Sderot's commercial center. She died en route to hospital, becoming the first Israeli to die in a rocket attack since November. Two other people were wounded in the attack, one moderately and the other lightly, and were evacuated to Ashkelon's Barzilai Hospital.
Earlier in the day, an IAF missile hit a car in Beit Lahiya in the northern Gaza Strip, killing its four occupants, an Islamic Jihad Kassam squad. Another strike killed a
The IDF said the Islamic Jihad members were responsible for dozens of Kassam attacks, including one in November that killed Fatima Slutsker, 57, in Sderot and seriously wounded one of Defense Minister Amir Peretz's bodyguards. The IDF said the squad was intercepted based on intelligence provided by the Shin Bet
In response, Hamas ordered its operatives to limit their movements and to refrain from speaking on cellphones. Hamas also threatened to renew suicide attacks from the West Bank.
Tens of thousands of people on Monday attended a funeral in Gaza City for the people killed in Sunday evening's IAF air strike.
"You are under attack because you are strong, because you are the supporters of the resistance in Palestine," Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh of Hamas told the crowd.
The latest air strikes followed Sunday's security cabinet decision to step up operations against Hamas and Islamic Jihad and to begin targeted killings of terrorist leaders and politicians.
The attack in Sderot came as European Union foreign policy chief Javier Solana and Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni were meeting there. Following the attack, Sderot residents threatened to burn the tires of the car carrying the two to protest a lack of protection from rocket attacks.
Hours earlier, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert signed an order designating Sderot and communities surrounding the as "conflict zones." The decision will allow residents to receive compensation for direct and indirect damage from Kassam attacks. Monday afternoon, the Knesset Finance Committee authorized a financial benefits package for Sderot residents.
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