ISRAEL: Palestinian militants launch rocket directly hitting house in southern Israeli city of Sderot

Record ID: 396294

  • Title: ISRAEL: Palestinian militants launch rocket directly hitting house in southern Israeli city of Sderot
  • Date: 7th May 2007
  • Summary: (SOUNDBITE) (Hebrew) RESIDENT OF SDEROT, NEIGHBOUR, SAYING: "Suddenly we heard it fall, we thought it fell over there but not next to us." (SOUNDBITE) (Hebrew) RESIDENT OF SDEROT, NEIGHBOUR, SAYING: "An abandoned nation, people are living....I'm telling you, they have to be judged not for the second Lebanon war but for the present, today, now as an entire town is
  • Embargoed: 22nd May 2007 13:00
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  • Location: Israel
  • Country: Israel
  • Topics: Crime / Law Enforcement,International Relations
  • Reuters ID: LVAELPF123MIQ60OLGAEG7AWZG59
  • Story Text: Palestinian militants launch a rocket at southern Israel, directly hitting a house in the rocket battered city of Sderot.
    Palestinian militants launched a rocket at southern Israel on Monday (May 7), directly hitting a house.
    The makeshift rocket slammed into a house in the Israeli town of Sderot, causing damage. No casualties were reported.
    "We are just asking for secure rooms, we are like sitting ducks, there is no owner, no country, no government, no mayor, there is nobody -- all we want is a security room, that's all," said the owner of the house, Hana Daniash.
    Palestinian gunmen have continued to fire crude rockets at Israel from Gaza despite a ceasefire called in late November, but casualties from these attacks have been rare.
    The rain of rockets in recent days come as public calls for Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert to step down gained momentum following the release of an official report sharply criticising his handling of last year's war in Lebanon.
    "They have to be judged not for the second Lebanon war but for the present, today, now as an entire town is abandoned, we don't have a prime minister, no mayor....nothing," one of the neighbours cried out.
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