Rocket Slams Old Age Home

Stand for Israel  |  November 14, 2019

As terrorist rockets continued to rain down on the Holy Land, the count now over 350, one projectile targeted the most vulnerable Israelis. The Times of Israel’s Judah Ari Gross reports that a rocket struck a nursing home in the southern town of Ashkelon, wounding one of the elderly residents:

A 70-year-old woman was moderately hurt when a rocket fired from the Gaza Strip struck her elder care facility in the southern city of Ashkelon on Wednesday, joining several dozen Israelis injured thus far in the rocket fire that began Tuesday morning.

The woman was struck by glass shards from a window in her apartment that exploded as the rocket hit. Rescuers from the Magen David Adom ambulance service took her to the city’s Barzilai Hospital.

Israel’s targeted killing before dawn Tuesday of Islamic Jihad’s terror chief Baha Abu al-Ata was met by over 350 rockets so far launched throughout Tuesday and Wednesday by terror groups in Gaza, the military said.

The Iron Dome missile defense system successfully intercepted some 90 percent of all rockets headed to populated areas since Tuesday morning, but dozens of Israelis have still been hurt by the barrages…