School closure saves lives as rockets slam into Beersheva classrooms

[Israel Insider]

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 as he toured the classroom. "The mayor and the Home Front Command made the right decision, and it's going to stay this way for the foreseeable future."

The classroom had a hole through the roof, and a desk, directly beneath the rocket's entry point, had been hit dead-on.

The explosion created another hole in the wall, and ceiling tiles were thrown in every direction. Ball bearings and bolts, which terrorists pack into the rockets to increase their deadliness, were sprayed throughout the classroom, leaving holes in the walls.

Across town at the kindergarten hit Tuesday evening - the first strike in the city - the rocket landed in a playground, spraying ball bearings as far as a block away, some of which blasted off ceiling tiles in the school some 70 feet distant.

[Tricia]

May G-d continue to give wisdom to the Home Front Command. I thank Him for the lives that were saved by their foresight in this matter.