Dozens of Rockets Fired into Israel, House Hit

The Fellowship  |  May 30, 2018

Last night the barrage of terrorist rockets fired from Gaza into Israel continued, forcing thousands of Israelis into bomb shelters. The Times of Israel’s Judah Ari Gross reports that the IDF responded by striking 25 terror targets after the terrorist rockets rained down, one of which struck an Israeli home:

Thousands of Israelis spent the night in bomb shelters as terrorists in the Gaza Strip fired some 40 rockets and mortar shells at communities near the coastal enclave early Wednesday, with several of the projectiles being intercepted by Iron Dome. There were no reports of injuries.

The IDF said that rockets and shells were fired at the Eshkol, Sha’ar Hanegev and Sdot Negev regions and that Iron Dome intercepted some of them, while most of the others fell in open areas. One house in the Eshkol region suffered a direct hit; it was empty at the time…

Earlier in the evening, fragments of a rocket that had apparently been intercepted by Iron Dome landed in a sports facility in Netivot. The shards of the projectile caused light damage to a number of structures, but no injuries. One woman, who was close by at the time, was said to have suffered a panic attack…

Despite the attacks, schools in the region were set to open on schedule Wednesday morning.

Late Tuesday Israeli warplanes hit some 25 Hamas targets in the Gaza Strip in a second wave of retaliatory strikes, the army said.