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Itongadol.- A mortar shell landed near a preschool in southern Israel\’s Eshkol Regional Council on Friday morning during continued barrages of rocket fire from the Gaza Strip.
In Beersheba two rockets were intercepted over the city while a third exploded in a residential parking lot, wounding one person, police reported. The man was rushed to the hospital in moderate condition from shrapnel wounds. Several vehicles in the vicinity sustained damages.
Rocket alert sirens blared throughout the morning in the South with 26 rockets launched so far at Israel by mid-day from the Gaza Strip. The Iron Dome rocket defense system intercepted five rockets and 21 struck open areas in Israel.
Sirens went off in the Eshkol Regional Council, the Ashkelon Coast Regional Council, Ashkelon and Beersheba.
Meanwhile, the IDF continued its campaign against terrorist elements in the Gaza Strip for a third day since a temporary cease-fire collapsed on Tuesday night with the resumption of rocket attacks from Gaza.
IDF air strikes hit more than 20 terror targets in Gaza overnight between Thursday and Friday in retaliation for projectile attacks the previous day, a military spokeswoman confirmed.
Palestinian medical sources reported that one person was killed during the overnight air force strikes in central Gaza\’s Deir al-Balah.
On Friday morning, Palestinian sources in Gaza reported that four additional people had been killed in Israeli air strikes in the enclave.