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Terrorism

Kassam rain falls on Negev towns

More than 30 fired in 24 hours by terrorists of Hamas-led PA


By Stan Goodenough
June 11, 2006

?Palestinians? taking full advantage of an explosion that killed seven Arabs on Friday ? and an incident that led Israel to suspend retaliatory shelling ? unleashed a barrage of Kassam rockets at Israeli towns in the Negev over the weekend.

Terrorist members of Hamas, the organization controlling the Palestinian Authority, have been behind the attacks, which have seen at least 32 rockets fired in a 36 hour period.

Hamas, which has purportedly been observing a ?ceasefire? against Israel, announced its intention to ?resume? attacks after the incident on Friday.

Its intention, said an official, is to render the population center of S?derot into a ?ghost town.?

At least one person was critically wounded, and a number lightly injured, when four out of 13 rockets fired Sunday morning hit the S?derot area. One landed near a first grade classroom.

The town ordered all schools closed and instructed parents to keep their children off the street to protect them from attacks.

As the rockets were falling, S?derot mayor Eli Moyal was meeting with officials in the Prime Minister?s Office, where he complained at the lack of adequate security precautions being taken on behalf of his townspeople. Moyal was told to convey to his citizens that Prime Minister Ehud Olmert supported them in their situation.

Because of the ban on artillery retaliation, it took most of Sunday morning before Israeli Air Force planes began targeting Kassam cells with rocket fire.?

At least one two-man Kassam firing cell was blown apart in an IAF missile strike.

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