ISRAEL-MIDEAST-GAZA/ROCKET/CAR Rocket launched from Gaza strikes Sderot, damage caused

Record ID: 398678

  • Title: ISRAEL-MIDEAST-GAZA/ROCKET/CAR Rocket launched from Gaza strikes Sderot, damage caused
  • Date: 24th August 2014
  • Summary: SDEROT, ISRAEL (AUGUST 24, 2014) (REUTERS) DAMAGE IN ROAD AFTER ROCKET LAUNCHED FROM GAZA HITS IN SDEROT VARIOUS OF DAMAGE TO CAR WINDOWS DAMAGED TYRE OF CAR MAN POINTING TO DAMAGE IN CAR HOLE IN BACK OF CAR (SOUNDBITE) (Hebrew) RESIDENT OF SDEROT, YAACOV, SAYING: "We heard siren, after six seconds we heard an explosion. Very luckily, there were no children in the road. Lo
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  • Location: Israel
  • Country: Israel
  • Topics: General
  • Reuters ID: LVAEI9AW3GXJPQM0PN1Q3L2OR1FS
  • Story Text: A rocket fired from Gaza struck the Israeli border town of Sderot on Sunday (August 24), causing damage to cars and property and continuing to fray nerves, say residents.
    Militants the strip kept up constant rocket and mortar strikes on southern Israel, wounding three Israelis at the Erez border crossing with the Gaza Strip.
    The Israeli military said more than 70 rockets were launched on Sunday alone.
    "We heard siren, after six seconds we heard an explosion. Very luckily, there were no children in the road. Look the house was damaged. We can't live like this - every day we live in fear. Every day there is six to seven sirens," said Sderot resident Yaacov.
    Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned Palestinian civilians on Sunday to leave immediately any site where militants are operating, one day after Israel took the Gaza war to a new level by flattening a 13-storey apartment tower in an air strike.
    Sixty-four Israeli soldiers and four civilians in Israel have been killed. Israel's president attended the funeral on Sunday of a four-year-old boy who died in mortar bomb attack on Friday.
    Palestinian health officials say 2,114 people, most of them civilians and more than 400 of them children, have been killed in the Gaza Strip since July 8, when Israel launched an offensive with the declared aim of ending Palestinian rocket fire into its territory.

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