By Stan Goodenough
Feb 11, 2008
An eight-year-old Israeli boy lost his leg after being wounded by a Kassam rocket in an attack on the Negev town of Sderot at the weekend.
Osher Tuito and his older brother Rami (19) were wounded when the missile slammed into the street where they were walking during the Sabbath.
They were hospitalized together with another two members of their family who suffered from shock after seeing the boys bleeding and screaming in the road.
The rocket that ripped into the Tuito boys was one of nearly 50 fired by Arabs in the Gaza Strip at the end of a week of non-stop attacks.
Most news networks abroad ignore this daily "Palestinian" aggression, with especially the ongoing United States election drama keeping all but the most sensational news off American screens.
For the residents of Sderot and, increasingly, for Israelis elsewhere in the land, however, tensions here are ratcheting steadily towards what looks like a showdown between the IDF and Gaza's Arabs.