700 ROCKETS AND A WEEKEND FULL OF TERROR IN ISRAEL

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FOUR ISRAELIS DEAD, 700 ROCKETS AND A WEEKEND FULL OF TERROR IN ISRAEL

On Sunday afternoon, Israel’s security cabinet met and instructed the military to intensify its attacks in the Strip.
BY ANNA AHRONHEIM MAY 6, 2019 01:40

The IDF has reinforced troops along the Gaza border after close to 700 rockets were fired towards southern Israel since Saturday by Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) from the Gaza Strip, killing four civilians and injuring close to 80 others.

Terrorist groups fired dozens of rocket barrages toward southern Israel on Sunday, as well as several longer-range projectiles towards central Israel. According to the IDF, terrorist groups in the Strip also tried to carry out a terrorist attack using a rocket propelled grenade (RPG) attached to a drone. The RPG-laden drone, which landed on a tank deployed along the border, did not explode.


On Saturday night, Moshe Agadi, a father of four, was killed when a rocket struck his home in Ashkelon when he went out to smoke a cigarette. He was struck by shrapnel to his stomach and chest and was taken by Magen David Adom teams to Barzilai Hospital where he was pronounced dead.

Moshe Feder, 64, from Kfar Saba, was killed Sunday afternoon after a Kornet anti-tank guided missile struck a car near the Gaza border between the communities of Yad Mordechai and Sderot.

A Bedouin man was killed after he was critically injured in his chest by shrapnel from a direct strike on a factory in Ashkelon, dying from his wounds shortly after.

A 23-year-old Israeli man was also killed Sunday evening after he suffered severe shrapnel injuries to his chest while running to a shelter in Ashdod.

On Sunday afternoon, Israel’s Security Cabinet met and instructed the military to intensify its attacks in the Strip.

Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh said on Sunday night that he does not rule out the possibility of reaching a ceasefire agreement with Israel.

In a statement, Haniyeh said that the “return to calm is possible and depends on the commitment of the occupation to a complete ceasefire.”