And the world continues to ignore it.
A high school in the Negev was directly hit by a Qassam rocket Thursday. Two people were lightly wounded in the attack, and several others suffered from shock.
The rocket landed on an unfortified classroom, which was empty at the time. Students who were at the school were ordered to remain in the fortified classrooms.
Head of the Shaar Hanegev local council Alon Shuster said that there were still a few classrooms in the school which had not been fortified. “Only the students that had to take their matriculation exams came to school today, and they were placed in fortified classrooms,” he stated.
Earlier Thursday, three Qassam rockets landed in Sderot. One of the rockets exploded near a building in town, slightly damaging the structure. A mother and her nine-year-old daughter suffered from shock.
What other nation has to fortify its schools to protect its children against rocket attacks?
Meantime, Israel is hitting Hamas, and the AP is doing its thing. It focuses attention on the Israeli attacks, and buries details like this:
Gunfire erupted at a Hamas funeral procession earlier Thursday, killing two people and wounding 14 others, Palestinian medical officials said. It was unclear who fired the bullets, but the unrest threatened to unravel a lull in the fighting.
Meanwhile, Hamas said one of its men was kidnapped and executed by security forces loyal to the rival Fatah movement.
The funeral was for two Hamas fighters killed during the latest wave of Palestinian factional violence. Witnesses said members of the procession were firing their weapons into the air a common practice at Palestinian funerals when unknown assailants began shooting at them.
And really buries facts like this, which should be the subject of a separate story:
A total of 22 people were killed on Wednesday, as gunfire and explosions raged across Gaza City in the most widespread fighting in nearly a year of clashes between Hamas and Fatah.
Raging street battles have turned the densely populated seaside city into a war zone, putting terrified civilians increasingly at risk. During the fighting, masked gunmen took over otherwise deserted streets, trapping frightening residents in their homes.
But then, they can’t blame the Jews for that. Well, they can, and they will—Gaza is all Israel’s fault, you see, even though Egypt washed its hands of Gaza—thankfully—in 1967. Now it’s just a handy stick used to beat Israel.
And the march to Gazastan continues.