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Rockets hit Sderot as Obama visits Israel – Israel News, Ynetnews.

Gaza fire resumes during US president’s Middle East trip: Five Color Red alerts sound in southern city Thursday morning; one rocket lands in local house’s backyard without causing any injuries, another rocket hits open area

Neri Brenner

Five Qassam rockets were fired at southern Israel from Gaza on Thursday morning, on the second day of US President Barack Obama’s visit to the Middle East.

After a long period of calm following Operation Pillar of Defense, a Color Red alert sounded in the city of Sderot at around 7:15 am, followed by additional air raid sirens, one of them in the Shaar Hanegev Regional Council.

One of the rockets hit the backyard of a house in Sderot, while another landed in an open area. There were no reports of injuries, but the yard sustained slight damage. Two additional rockets are believed to have landed on Palestinian territory.

According to initial estimates, the rockets were fired from the northern Gaza Strip town of Beit Hanoun.

Qassam in Sderot (Photo: Roee Idan)

Meir, a resident of the Sderot neighborhood hit by a rocket, told Ynet: “When I heard the first siren I thought it was a false alarm. We’ve already had some of those in the area. But immediately after I heard the second siren, I came to my senses. We’ve come to learn that even if you don’t hear an explosion at first, it doesn’t mean that it won’t come. And it really did come, when the third siren sounded.”

He said he used his bedroom as a fortified area, but that “the high alert and the fear caused by the Color Red alert take me back to terrible days here in the city.”

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