Israeli kids injured by Arab rockets

Islamist Muslim hatred reached out to Israeli kids injured by Arab rockets as Hamas terror campaign continues

Laurie Copans with the Associated Press reported Saturday, Feb 9, on an 8-year-old boy and his brother wounded by a Gaza enclave rocket that slammed into the Israeli border town of Sderot.

Police and medics said the injuries were serious; meanwhile Israeli leaders threatened retaliation because the Hamas Arabs refuse to stop what Israelis characterize as senseless acts.

Rockets from Gaza Strip and Israeli attacks in response hamper Bush administration efforts to prod Israel and Arabs toward a final peace agreement by the end of the year, the AP report said.

"Israel will take resolute and decisive measures to protect our citizens," government spokesman David Baker said. "We will not allow Israeli families to be victimized by Palestinian rockets in the heart of their own cities."

The rocket was one of 11 fired toward southern Israel on Saturday, police said. It landed yards away from a road where a family was running to seek shelter as warning sirens rang out to announce the attack, Israeli media reported.

A medic, who only gave his first name, Gil, said he heard a loud explosion and rushed toward the scene.

"I found two injured people, one boy very seriously wounded in the legs," the medic told Israel Army Radio.

The younger brother's legs were at least partially severed by the explosion, Army Radio reported. Doctors told Israel TV that the same boy also was hit in the chest by shrapnel.

Their mother and a third brother were brought to the hospital suffering shock, medics told Channel Two TV.

The militant Islamic Jihad and Popular Resistance Committees groups claimed responsibility for firing rockets toward Sderot around the time of the attack.

Hours later, an Israeli airstrike on a car hit Palestinian militants in the southern Gaza Strip, killing one and injuring three, medics said.

Another air strike targeted a training ground for Hamas militants. Earlier in the day, an Israeli air strike on Palestinian militants launching rockets seriously injured one, medics said.

This week, Israeli strikes on the Gaza Strip killed 18, 17 of them were militant Islamic jihad fighters.

It should be noted the barrages have not abated despite Israel's withdrawal from the territory in 2005 and other Israeli concessions.

Israel remains reluctant to launch a large military campaign in Gaza against the rocket operation for fear both soldiers and Arab residents would suffer and many would die.

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