Wave after wave of Qassam missiles strike Sderot
Pastor Dale Morgan
Wave after wave of Qassam missiles strike Sderot *
Wave after wave of Qassam missiles strike Sderot Tuesday night, injuring
19 people, two seriously. Hamas expanded blitz of more than 30 missiles
from Gaza against Kibbutz Nahal Oz, Alumim, Beeri, Kfar Aza and Netivot.
Strategic installation hit in Ashkelon
May 15, 2007, 11:30 PM (GMT+02:00)
Sderot took heavy damage from at least 20 missiles which directly hit
several homes, in which seven civilians, including a mother and her son,
were wounded. Blazes were started in the town and surrounding
localities. This was the heaviest Qassam assault the Palestinians have
ever staged from the Gaza Strip in more than six years of battering.
Hamas has threatened to fire scores in a single night.
DEBKAfile's military sources: Hamas, determined to prove it can fight on
two fronts, turned its missiles against Israel amid bloody battles with
Mahmoud Abbas' presidential guard and security forces under Fatah
command. More than 20 Palestinians, most Fatah, have been killed in the
last 48 hours and the bitter Palestinian factional fighting continued
Tuesday night.
Israel's response was confined to a helicopter strike against
unpopulated areas in N. Gaza.
Sunday, the Olmert government decided not to expand operations against
the Palestinian missile threat from Gaza despite the daily barrage.