(Ha'aretz) Nir Hasson and Amos Harel - A child was lightly injured and 34 people suffered from shock when Palestinians in Gaza fired a Kassam rocket Thursday that hit a bustling shopping center in Sderot, striking a few meters from the entrance to a supermarket as hundreds of people were doing their weekend grocery shopping. Another Kassam rocket landed in a vacant area within a residential neighborhood in Sderot. An additional Kassam rocket had earlier landed in an open area at a western Negev kibbutz. The IDF estimates that the rockets were launched from Beit Hanun by Hamas squads. The IDF left the outskirts of Beit Hanun two weeks ago.
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