(AP/Jerusalem Post) Five rockets fired from Gaza landed in Sderot, a town of about 25,000 people, located about 5 kilometers from the Gaza line. School children in the town were shepherded into underground shelters. One of the rockets left a hole the size of a truck tire in the yard of a home and lightly injured a woman hanging laundry, said police spokesperson Michal Chaim. Two other rockets landed in a field. Hizballah television in Beirut reported that Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.
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