All Journal Posts Tagged 'rockets and mortars' (7)

A second Beersheva school was hit wednesday after a kindergarten was hit the previous day. Both schools had been closed due to the security situation, and thus no one was hurt.

The rocket pierced through the ceiling of a classroom around 9:30 a.m. - just where ninth graders would have been sitting. "It doesn't take a rocket scientist to imagine what would have happened here if school had not been canceled today," National Parents Organization head Yitzhak Maimon said

Lebanese sappers defused 13 rockets pointing at northern Israeli cities Thursday night, just hours before their timing devices would have automatically fired them against Nahariya and Maalot on Israel's northern border.

Eight rocket launchers were found ready to fire that night in Wadi Hamoul, 3 miles from the Israeli border, an area used by Hizballah to bombard Nahariya and Maalot in the 2006 Lebanon War. According to Debkafile

Medical officials in Gaza said Wednesday evening that an Israeli air strike killed a Hamas gunman and wounded four other Palestinians, after a day in which more than 60 rockets and mortars were fired towards Israel.

An Israeli military spokesman said t

Vice Premier Haim Ramon of the Kadima party on Saturday blasted Defense Minister Ehud Barak's Gaza policy Strip as a "total failure" as Palestinian terrorists pounded southern Israel with rocket and mortar fire without any significant Israeli response.

A barrage of rockets and mortars

Israel Air Force fighter jets attacked a rocket-launching terrorist cell near Gaza City on Sunday following an early morning Kassam attack on the western Negev. An IDF spokesman said pilots hit terrorists as they were placing rockets on launchers i

Palestinians fired more than 35 Qassam rockets and mortar shells at Israel early Wednesday, following an IDF operation in Gaza aimed at thwarting an impending terror attack that killed six Hamas terrorists.

Two soldiers were moderately injured and four sustained light injuries after a mortar shell was fired at an IDF force during the raid the previous night. Six Hamas operatives were killed in the operation, which concluded on Wednesday morning.

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