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Shock and Fear Returns to Beersheba

(Jerusalem Post) Ben Hartman - Hours after a Grad rocket crashed into a Beersheba neighborhood Wednesday, schoolchildren walked around collecting ball bearings and other shrapnel that had been packed into the rocket to maximize its destructive power. Mordechai Saani's house was pockmarked with holes, and there was shattered glass all over. Ball bearings were still lodged in the interior walls in each of the house's four rooms. "We heard the alarm and grabbed the kids from their beds and took them to an interior room only moments before the missile struck," Saani said. The neighborhood was the boyhood home of Vice Premier Silvan Shalom. The strike blew out several windows of the synagogue built by Shalom in honor of his late father. Shimon Tsiboni, 33, was at the synagogue when the sirens went off. "It was a serious miracle, look at where it struck, literally between two houses," Tsiboni said. "Only a few meters this way or that and it would have killed everyone inside those houses."
2011-03-24 00:00:00
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