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St. Louis Jewish Light · St. Louis, MO · 30 May 2018

CP-2018-040

As rockets strike southern Israel, official says things will get worse

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As rockets strike southern Israel, official says things will get worse — St. Louis Jewish Light, 30 May 2018
St. Louis Jewish Light · St. Louis, MO · 30 May 2018
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JERUSALEM — Six Israelis, including three soldiers, were injured as mortar shells and rockets continued to rain down on southern Israel from the Gaza Strip. At least 50 rockets and mortars had struck the area by Tuesday afternoon. The Code Red rocket warning system sounded again after at least six additional barrages had hit.

Israel’s intelligence minister, Israel Katz, said in an interview with Army Radio that tensions with Gaza will get worse over the evening. Earlier Tuesday afternoon, Israel’s military struck struck more than 35 targets belonging to the Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad terrorist organizations in Gaza.

Among the targets was a terror tunnel that stretched from Egypt to Gaza and under the Kerem Shalom border crossing for humanitarian goods into Israel, as well as weapons storage sites, naval targets and a terrorist headquarters.

Sirens sounded farther away from the Gaza border, including in Ashkelon, indicating that the terrorists were firing longer-range rockets and not just mortars. By Tuesday afternoon, residents of southern Israel were told to stay near bomb shelters. Three Israelis were injured in Sderot while running for bomb shelters. The soldiers were injured by shrapnel from mortar shells.

Also late Tuesday afternoon, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu held a security briefing on the attacks with officials including Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman; the Israeli army’s chief of staff, Lt. Gen. Gadi Eisenkot; and the head of the Israel Security Agency, Nadav Argaman.

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Date and publication rest on the collector's slide label; no masthead, folio or printed dateline appears on this clipping. Filed under the archive’s spelling; the page prints “St Louis Jewish Light”.

Context added by this archive

Liberman appears only as an attendee at a security briefing; he is not quoted. Casualties are counted on one side only: six Israelis injured named by location, no Palestinian casualty figure anywhere in the item, and the word ‘terrorist’ or ‘terror’ is used five times as the paper’s own descriptor rather than in quotation.

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"As rockets strike southern Israel, official says things will get worse," St. Louis Jewish Light, 30 May 2018. Covering Palestine archive, CP-2018-040. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-2018-040

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