- Title: ISRAEL: Qassam rocket hits a college near Sderot, one wounded
- Date: 11th June 2006
- Summary: POLICE VEHICLE LEAVING, AMBULANCE AT SITE
- Embargoed: 26th June 2006 13:00
- Keywords:
- Location: Israel
- Country: Israel
- Topics: Defence / Military
- Reuters ID: LVA6IYUTLN3LNEQARLWIH120ZBP5
- Story Text: Violence continued in the region on Sunday (June 11) as a Qassam rocket hit an Israeli college near the town of Sderot, wounding one person.
"I heard a Qassam hit, I arrived at the site and saw him (the wounded person) lying on the ground. The things that happen here in the region are catastrophic. They (the international community) only see the children (Palestinian) that fall there and overlook us (Israelis) who fall here," said a neighbour Meir Choen.
Israeli media reported that several rockets landed in Israel.
The attack came after the ruling Palestinian Hamas formally ended a 16-month truce by firing more than 25 rockets and mortar bombs at Israel in response to the killing of seven people on a Gaza beach during Israeli shelling on Friday.
Israeli Defence Minister Amir Peretz hinted in televised remarks Israel might renew an assassination policy against Hamas leaders if the group continued the attacks.
Hopes for peacemaking appeared even more remote after Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas stepped up his power struggle with the Hamas-led government when he set a July 26 referendum a statehood proposal that implicitly recognises Israel.
Abbas and his Fatah movement were defeated by the Islamist group in a January election locked in political confrontation.
The manifesto, penned by Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails, calls for a Palestinian state, alongside Israel, on all of the Gaza Strip and the occupied West Bank. Opinion polls show most Palestinians back the proposal. Israel calls it a non-starter. - Copyright Holder: REUTERS
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