GAZA (PIC)– A Palestinian home made resistance missile started fires in an Israeli colony on Thursday while another cut off electricity in certain areas in Sderot at a late hour Wednesday sending people to shelters the Hebrew radio reported.
It said that the missile slammed into a power-line cutting off electricity in a number of neighborhoods.
Another missiles fell on a building in the same city but no casualties were sustained due to the presence of its inhabitants in shelters the broadcast underlined.
It said that a third missile fired on Thursday morning blasted in fields of Shaar Hanegev settlement in the western Negev occupied since 1948 starting fires.
According to IOF estimates around 270 Palestinian locally made missiles were fired at Israeli colonies surrounding the Gaza Strip over the past couple of weeks in response to IOF streak of assassinations of resistance activists.
For its part the Quds Brigades the armed wing of the Islamic Jihad Movement on Thursday fired a “medium range” Quds missile at Sderot.
Local sources said that the IOF Apache choppers pursued the armed wing’s cell that fired the missile and fired two missiles at them in Beit Hanun north of the Strip.
They said that the missiles blasted the missile launcher but inflicted no casualties.
IOF warplanes also opened heavy machinegun fire at the southern entrance to Beit Hanun.
