(Jerusalem Post) Tovah Lazaroff - A 33-year-old Israeli father celebrating his son's birthday in a daycare center was hit in the back by shrapnel as he pushed the small children in the room away from the window on Thursday as seven mortar shells struck inside a kibbutz near the Gaza border. The father instinctively pushed the children away and helped them lie on the floor. As he did that, he was wounded, said Asaf Artal, a kibbutz administrator. "He helped save them, but he himself was hurt," said Artal. On Thursday, mortar shells struck in five of the seven communities directly on the Gaza border, said Ronit Minaker, a spokeswoman for the Eshkol Regional Council.
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