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Sunday, May. 05 '19, ל' בניסן תשע"ט





HEADLINES:
1. 2 SERIOUSLY WOUNDED IN ASHKELON
2. IDF STRIKES 260 TARGETS IN GAZA
3. WATCH: BIKE-RIDING TERRORIST ELIMINATED
4. 'LET THE IDF LOOSE' TO RESTORE PEACE
5. 'MOSHE WENT OUT FOR SOME FRESH AIR AND WAS KILLED BY A ROCKET'
6. TWO ISRAELIS INJURED IN ROCKET FIRE
7. IDF PREPARES FOR 'SEVERAL DAYS OF FIGHTING'
8. RETAKING GAZA? 'NOT SERIOUS, IMMORAL'


1. 2 SERIOUSLY WOUNDED IN ASHKELON
by Hezki Baruch


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2 were seriously wounded and another was moderately wounded after a rocket landed on a factory in the city of Ashkelon.

Magen David Adom (MDA) teams are at the scene, administering first aid to the wounded.

"MDA teams are treating and transferring to Barzilai Hospital 3 wounded with shrapnel injuries including a 40 year old and 22 year old with multi-systemic trauma. An additional 50 year old man is being treated for moderate injuries to his upper body and extremities," an MDA spokesperson said.

Code Red sirens were sounded in many communities in the south, in the Beer Sheva area, in the Gaza perimeter, in Hatzerim and in the Bedouin regions, as barrages of rockets were launched from the Gaza Strip towards Israeli territory.

Most of the rockets have been intercepted by the Iron Dome defense system.

Blue and White Chairman MK Benny Gantz, who is now in the Gaza vicinity, ran to a bomb shelter with journalists who were waiting to hear from him about the deterioration of the security situation.

The Political-Security Cabinet is meeting at this time to discuss the escalation in the south and the possibilities of Israel's response to the rocket attacks from the Gaza Strip.


2. IDF STRIKES 260 TARGETS IN GAZA
by Arutz Sheva Staff

The IDF continues to attack terrorist targets belonging to Hamas and Islamic Jihad in response to the massive rocket fire targeting communities in southern Israel.

About 260 strikes have been carried out so far, with more occurring even as the rocket fire on Israel continues.

The targets included underground infrastructures and weapons stores that were hidden in the homes of terrorists.

The IAF's fighter planes and helicopter gunships also attacked terrorist tunnels and underground infrastructure, military compounds, a weapons production site, and several Hamas launching stations.

The IDF spokesman said that "a large part of the targets have been deliberately hidden in the vicinity of the civilian population in the homes of terrorist operatives belonging to and near the Hamas terrorist organizations throughout the Gaza Strip."

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3. WATCH: BIKE-RIDING TERRORIST ELIMINATED
by Arutz Sheva Staff

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4. 'LET THE IDF LOOSE' TO RESTORE PEACE
by Arutz Sheva Staff

MK Uzi Dayan (Likud) arrived this morning (Sunday) together with Ashkelon mayor Tomer Galam at the home of Moshe Agadi, a father of four, who was killed by a direct rocket hit at his home. Agadi will be laid to rest at 4:00 pm in the city.

Dayan is convinced that the cabinet, which convenes Sunday afternoon under Prime Minister Netanyahu, will make the right decisions following the rocket attacks from the Gaza Strip. "From what I see they take it seriously. They do not deal with the question of what will happen to the Eurovision Song Contest, but first of all how to react with force, how to deal with people who are actually represented by the head of the municipality," he said, pointing to the mayor. "We have to help him."

"I came to politics in order to change things, and it is clear that in this term we will have to decide: Either to deter Hamas in a way that there will not be any more cases like this or to bring it down," MK Dayan said.

Mayor Galam said, "I want to send my condolences to the Agadi family. The city of Ashkelon experienced a most unpleasant experience. The Prime Minister spoke to me last night. I conveyed to him the feelings of the public that wants to handle and embark on a wide-ranging operation so that we will not live in a situation where every three months we meet in unpleasant situations. The other side should not set the agenda."

"Our desire is for the other side to take a hard blow, to understand that it has no one to deal with. This is not a situation that can continue. It cannot be delayed, and we expect the cabinet and the prime minister to release the restraints on the IDF," Galam demanded.


5. 'MOSHE WENT OUT FOR SOME FRESH AIR AND WAS KILLED BY A ROCKET'
by Arutz Sheva Staff

The family of Moshe Agadi recounted the harrowing moment when he was killed by one of the over 450 rockets fired from the Gaza Strip on Saturday night.

His brother Shmulik told Channel 2 television about the incident: "Moshe went out to smoke a cigarette following a barrage and did not have time to enter the protected area [when the rocket fire resumed]. They tried to carry out initial CPR but on the way to the hospital they lost him."

"They always made sure to enter the security room and be careful, this time it caught him outside," he said. "Four children - the youngest, who is 13, is still in shock."

Moti Gamliel, Agadi's neighbor, said on the "Kalman Lieberman" program that "He lived 100 meters from us. When we heard the sirens all night, we went straight to the stairwell, since we do not have a safe room in the house," he said, adding: "It cannot go on like this, Every two years, they want to have a cease-fire. This is not what we elected Bibi for."

Agadi, 58, will be buried in his home city of Ashkelon at 4 PM on Sunday.



6. TWO ISRAELIS INJURED IN ROCKET FIRE
by Uzi Baruch

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Two hundred rockets were fired from Gaza into Israel on Saturday, and Israel's Iron Dome system intercepted dozens of them.

Air raid sirens sounded in Gaza-area towns, as well as in Beit Shemesh and other Jerusalem-area towns. Rockets also landed in the courtyards of a home and school in Kiryat Gat.

"We can confirm that the Palestinian Islamic Jihad together with Hamas are responsible for firing 200 rockets from Gaza at Israeli civilians over the last 8 hours," an IDF statement read.

An 80-year-old woman was severely injured in Kiryat Gat, after suffering shrapnel wounds to her face. It is not clear what the shrapnel was from. Magen David Adom (MDA) said they administered first aid and transferred the woman to Ashkelon's Barzilai Medical Center, conscious and in severe but stable condition. The shrapnel, which hit her head and limbs, hit blood vessels and caused massive bleeding.

"Immediately after the siren sounded in the Kiryat Gat area, we were called to treat a woman who was injured by shrapnel," MDA paramedic Efraim Yanko said. "When we arrived at the scene, we saw a woman of approximately 80 lying fully conscious and suffering wounds to her head and limbs. We administered life-saving medical aid and transferred her urgently to Barzilai Hospital, in severe and stable condition."

MDA also said they provided aid to a woman who suffered injuries to her limbs while running to a safe area in Gan Yavne, as well as to a woman who suffered shock in Kiryat Gat.

In Ashkelon, a man of 50 suffered moderate injuries when a rocket hit the house he was in. He was transferred to Barzilai Medical Center, with shrapnel wounds in his limbs. Reports said an additional Gaza-area home also suffered a direct hit.

A total of twelve other people have suffered light injuries, and another six have suffered shock. Bathers on Ashdod's beaches were evacuated.

The Hamas and Islamic Jihad terror groups warned Israel not to continue retaliating for the rockets fired at its citizens.

"Our reactions will become extreme if [Israel] continues its attacks," their statement warned. "We are following Israel closely."Later on Saturday, Israel closed its Kerem Shalom and Erez border crossings with Gaza and closed the enclave's fishing area.

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7. IDF PREPARES FOR 'SEVERAL DAYS OF FIGHTING'
by Kobi Finkler

The IDF is bolstering forces near the Gaza Strip following the continued rocket fire into Israel, and is moving "Brigade 7" of the Armored Corps to the south.

Since the beginning of the escalation, 450 rockets have been fired into Israel. 150 of them were intercepted by Iron Dome systems.

IDF Spokesman Ronen Manelis said that the Air Force attacked about 200 targets, including small terrorist cells, small buildings and warehouses where advanced missiles and rockets were manufactured.

So far, eight terrorists have been killed in the Gaza Strip, and the IDF spokesperson stressed that the army was preparing for several days of fighting. According to Manelis, "Terrorist propaganda is at its best. The mother and child whom they claim in Gaza were killed in an IDF attack were killed by the use of Hamas weapons."

Moshe Agadi, 58, a father of four, was killed Saturday night when a rocket hit the porch of a house in an Ashkelon residential building.

Agadi's funeral will take place at the new cemetery in the city at 4:00 pm.

A Magen David Adom team gave Agadi medical treatment and evacuated him in critical condition to Barzilai Hospital where doctors were forced to determine his death.

Mayor of Ashkelon, Tomer Galam, arrived at the scene of the attack and said, "This is a difficult time for the city of Ashkelon, and we are all mourning, hurt and broken by the great tragedy that befell one of the oldest and most well-known families in Ashkelon."

"The municipality will provide the family with all the assistance it needs at this time and will support it as necessary. On this occasion, I would like to send my best wishes for speedy recovery and complete healing to the wounded from the last rocket barrage towards the city," added the mayor.

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8. RETAKING GAZA? 'NOT SERIOUS, IMMORAL'
by Arutz Sheva Staff

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Transportation Minister Yisrael Katz (Likud), a member of the political-security cabinet, discussed the continued rocket fire from the Gaza Strip towards Israel Sunday.

"We are working and we will continue to act, dozens of targets have been destroyed, terror tunnels have been destroyed. We are at the height of this round," Minister Katz told Kan Bet, adding, "I have not heard any original proposal from the emerging opposition."

He rejected the claims that the government lacks a coherent security policy: "Outside, people said all kinds of things, inside the room there is a policy, not to get into a war to the extent that this is possible, but to react forcefully. At the same time, it is a fact that they did not fire at Tel Aviv and are operating at full force in firing on the Gaza area and southern communities."

Regarding the situation in the Gaza Strip, Katz said: "There is no chance that Abu Mazen (Mahmoud Abbas) will return to Gaza, and those who propose to conquer Gaza with our best soldiers who will be hurt in the process are simply not serious and immoral. There must be a limit there, we cannot delude ourselves, as if Abbas and the Egyptians will solve our problems."

MK Ram Ben-Barak (Blue White) told Channel 2 this morning, "What's happened over the past year? Every time there's a round, the someone who dictates when it starts and ends is Hamas. We have to wear out Hamas and make it understand that it has something to lose. At the same time, we have to come up with a kind of solution that gives Gaza residents a horizon to forward to."