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Tuesday Rocket Total Hits 20
Grad Rocket Strikes Open Area in Beersheba; No Wounded Reported
3 Kassam Rockets Hit Sderot; None Hurt
PM: No to [European Union] 48-Hour Ceasefire
80 Trucks Full of Humanitarian Supplies Allowed Into Gaza [Through Kerem Shalom Crossing]
Gaza Terrorists Widen Rocket Range [to Gedera, Five Miles South of Rehovot], by Hana Levi Julian (Israel National News)
Two Kassams Strike Open Areas in Eshkol Region; None Hurt
3 Rockets Hit Eshkol Region, One Strikes Netivot Area, None Hurt
Paratrooper Officer Killed During Overnight Gaza Operations [Possibly Friendly-Fire, as With Other Incident Which Killed 3], by Yaakov Katz (Jerusalem Post)
Excerpts;
An IDF officer from the Paratroopers Brigade was killed overnight Monday during operations in the northern Gaza Strip…
The IDF was looking into the circumstances of the death, and was reportedly investigating the possibility that the soldier may have been killed by an errant tank shell.
Should the possibility turn out to be true, the case would mark the second friendly-fire incident of the night. Hours earlier, during separate clashes in northern Gaza, three IDF soldiers were killed and two dozen wounded when a tank shell destroyed a house that they were using for cover.
Friendly Fire Incident (IDF Spokesperson)
‘IDF Prepared for Entering Urban and Built-up Areas of Gaza’, by Yaakov Katz (Jerusalem Post)
Israel Expects Hamas To Strike Tel Aviv
IDF Casualties Stream into Soroka Hospital [At least 34 Being Treated for Light to Serious Wounds], by Abe Selig (Jerusalem Post)
Israel Setting Rules for Truce: Foreign Monitors at Border, by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu (Israel National News)
‘Al-Hayat’: UNIFIL, Lebanese Army Aaise Alert Fearing Hezbollah Attacks
Barak to Knesset Committee: We are Prepared on Northern Border, by Maayana Miskin (Israel National News)
Two Wounded in Mortar Attack on Shaar Hanegev
Grad-Type Rocket Slams into Empty Ashdod kindergarten [13 People Treated for Shock]
Excerpts;
Also Monday afternoon, nine people were lightly wounded when two Grad rockets were fired at Ashkelon. A building was damaged in the attack, which came moments before two more rockets hit open areas in Beersheba and another hit Ashdod. Several people were treated for shock following the attacks.
At least 30 rockets had been fired at the South by mid afternoon, including a Grad that slammed into the Yavne area, east of Ashdod – some 40 kilometers from Gaza.
Rockets also struck the the Eshkol, Sdot Negev and Sha’ar Hanegev regions. No one was wounded in the attacks.
Israel Radio reported that in the last nine days, … at least 500 projectiles had been fired at Israel.
… Schools, kindergartens and other educational institutions within a 40-kilometer range from Gaza remained closed Monday. Cities within that range include Beersheba, Ashdod, Kiryat Gat, Yavne, Gan Yavne, Gedera, Netivot, Ashkelon, Kiryat Malachi and Sderot.