Rocket Hit Israeli School Playground
CBNNews.com
December 20, 2007
CBNNews.com - JERUSALEM, Israel - A Kassam rocket launched by Palestinians in the Gaza Strip slammed into an elementary school playground in Sderot Thursday morning, where 10 people were treated for shock.
Three other rockets fired Thursday morning landed in open areas near Sderot and a fourth landed south of the coastal city of Ashkelon.
"We heard the 'Color Red' siren and then there was a loud boom," Ofek Vaknin, a sixth grader at Gil Elementary School, told YNet news service.
"We figured a rocket had landed close by," he said. "A lot of the kids were frightened."
Following the attack, numbers of parents took their kids home, while officials from the municipality assessed damage to the building to decide if it was safe to stay.
The Salah al-Din Brigades, an offshoot of the Popular Resistance Committee (PRC), took responsibility for the attack.
Wednesday, Gaza-based Hamas terror chief Ismail Haniyeh called for a hudna, a temporary truce, with Israel.
Haniyeh offered to halt Kassam rocket and mortar shell attacks if Israel would end its operations in the Strip.
Israel turned down the offer.
Source: YNet news service
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