The annihilationists must be crushed. Could you see how America would respond to such attacks? uh .... with a Republican President
14 wounded as Grad rocket strikes Ashkelon shopping mall hat tip Atlas readers
14 people were wounded Wednesday evening, including a mother and her three-year-old daughter, when a Grad rocket fired from Gaza hit the Hutzot Shopping Center in Ashkelon.
The rocket ripped through the roof of the mall, causing a large chunk of the roof to collapse in a huge pile of rubble and twisted metal. Four windows were blown out of the side of the building. The top floor of the building, which bore the brunt of the attack, is where offices and clinics are located.
A hospital official said a woman and her young daughter were seriously wounded, along with another child. Another woman was seriously wounded, and several other people were lightly wounded, said the official, Leah Malul of Barzilai Hospital in Ashkelon.
MDA said 14 people were wounded - three seriously, two moderately and nine slightly, adding that all the casualties had been evacuated from the site of the attack, including four people who were briefly trapped under the rubble.
Rocket Hits Shopping Center Medical Clinic in Ashkelon
(IsraelNN.com) Arab terrorists in Gaza fired two Grad Katyusha missiles at southern Ashkelon late Wednesday afternoon, and one rocket scored a direct hit on a children's medical clinic inside a shopping center. Parts of the building collapsed, trapping four people for a half-hour. Many ambulances rushed to the scene.
UPDATE: Photo footnote: In the hundreds of photos I scanned of Reuters Middle east coverage there was only one photo of the Ashkelon attack ((see above). The majority of the photos were of the "nakba" rallys in Gaza and Damascus. al Reuters, tool of the jihad.
