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Palestinian Rocket Wounds 2-Year-Old on Israeli Kibbutz


[AP/Washington Post] A rocket fired by Palestinian militants from Gaza scored a direct hit on a house in Kibbutz Zikim, an Israeli communal farm less than a mile from Gaza, wounding a 2-year-old boy. The toddler was hit by shrapnel and taken to hospital, and his mother was being treated for shock, police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said. - (New York Times) Yair Farjun, who leads the regional council which includes Kibbutz Zikim, told the Israeli Web site Ynet: "Everybody here is terrified. It's like being in a shooting range, like living on borrowed time."
2007-12-17 01:00:00
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