Tag: SDEROT

The warning siren, which was triggered at around 5:39 pm, was activated in Jewish communities ranging from Sderot all along the Ashkelon coastal region.

The PM did not offer an explanation as to why he had chosen not to order stopping those incendiary weapons before an estimated 6,000 acres had gone up in smoke.

Mayor Alon Davidi: "I am calling on the prime minister and the cabinet ministers to be with the residents, to come down to the south ... at the end of this most difficult week."

Two mortars had hit the town, one scoring a direct hit on a house, the other hit the courtyard of a synagogue.

The Code Red incoming rocket alert siren was triggered dozens of times in southern Israel more than an hour after midnight on Friday night.

Israel Police immediately closed down the area and summoned the bomb squad.

The Code Red rocket alert sirens were triggered on the second night of Prince William's three-day visit to Israel.

Three fires raged in the Kissufim Forest in the northwestern Negev; one erupted on the Gaza border.

"The whole city became Venice. Everything is flooded, the playground, there are ten cars stuck in the puddles."

"We are busy with positive things and optimism and the desire that our children always be happy. I also call on the children of Gaza to enjoy playing with kites ... our kites are of life, not death."

On Monday morning, Internal Security Minister Gilad Erdan announced that "terrorist kite launchers must become a target for preemptive assassinations."

President Reuven Rivlin called the kindergarten within minutes after the attack to speak with the children, and by speaker phone wished them a calm day. He invited them all to visit him at the presidential residence in Jerusalem.

The soldiers all suffered shrapnel wounds. They were evacuated to Soroka Medical Center in Be'er Sheva.

"The municipality is prepared, and in the event that they're needed, the assistance and resilience centers are located and ready in the various neighborhoods."

It is likely the weapon that was used in Monday night's attack on Sderot from Gaza was provided by Iran.

Air Force officials say they'll bar civilian pesticide spray planes from coming within six kilometers of the border after bullets from Gaza hit Sderot on Wednesday. Israeli farms say, “This means all our crops will be lost."

An IDF tank shelled two Hamas military posts in the southern area of the Gaza Strip.

The bullets were big enough, and deadly enough to penetrate the window frames of the homes and twist them like butter.

Before this article went to press, Congressmen Tipton and McKinley were detained by Israeli police for daring to pick up an olive branch which...

"We will not tolerate continued firing at Sderot," Davidi said. "Dealing with this in drips and drabs is not a workable plan."

The Iron Dome anti-missile defense system intercepted two of the rockets, which indicates they were headed for heavily populated areas.

Police are searching Sderot for any additional rockets that hit the town.

"We are asking residents as a precaution to remain near shelters or protected spaces."

An explosion was heard in Sderot but the rockets launched from Gaza didn't make it past the border into Israel.

"In Sderot, there's a different kind of Jew, one that says, 'Ad kan. That's it. We're done. We're not moving.' And that's a story that doesn't get told enough."

"Let Hamas do what it wants, and we will do what we need to do. Hamas is known for internal assassinations."

The imbalance caused by leftover munitions made it impossible to land the F-16, according to the IAF investigators.

Hamas has test-fired a long-range missile in what appears to be an escalation in its preparations for war against Israel.

Sderot Mayor Alon Davidi told Ma'ariv it would be "unacceptable" for his town to become the battleground for various Gazan factions to fight each other.

IDF tanks fired mortar shells at Gaza in response to a second rocket attack on southern Israel.