Qassam hits Ashkelon's industrial zone
Rocket fired from northern Gaza Strip lands in open area in seaside city;
two mortar shells fired at Kissufim area in southern Israel. No injuries or
damage reported in both incidents
Shmulik Hadad YNET Published: 11.21.08, 10:20 / Israel News
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A Qassam rocket fired from the northern Gaza Strip on Friday morning landed
in an open area in the city of Ashkelon's southern industrial zone. There
were no reports of injuries or damage.

Two mortar shells were fired at the Kissufim area in southern Israel. There
were no injuries or damage in this incident as well. The Salah al-Din
Brigades, the Popular Resistance Committee's military wing, claimed
responsibility for the mortars fired at Kissufim.

On Thursday afternoon, hundreds of people gathered at the main junction at
the entrance to Ashkelon to rally against the lack of fortifications in the
seaside city to protect residents from ongoing barrages of rockets

Dozens of rockets have been launched at the western Negev in the past two
weeks, one of which was a longer-range Grad rocket that wounded 15 in an
Ashkelon shopping mall last Wednesday. Residents of the southern city had
previously been largely out of rocket range.

Children in the crowd dropped to the ground as protest organizers blared a
Color Red alert. Other protesters carried signs reading, "Don't abandon
children in the field," "Who will save my house?" and "Ashkelon deserves to
have quiet."

"We're sick of the behavior of the military and other sources. People are
shooting rockets, missiles at us and no one is responding," said resident
Moshe Nisimfor.

Rocket fire from Gaza continued the afternoon of the protest. A Qassam fired
from the northern Gaza Strip landed in an open area in the Shaar Hanegev
Regional Council, fortunately not resulting in any casualties.

Defense Minister Ehud Barak addressed the security situation in the region,
saying that "the recent waves of rocket fire are the result of our actions,
which led to the killing of 20 Hamas members. We will continue to use fore,
but if the other side works to maintain to truce we will be prepared to do
so as well."