Two Qassam rockets were fired from the Gaza Strip on Saturday morning, one landing near a synagogue and an education institution in the southern town of Sderot and another landing near an educational institution within the Shaar Hanegev Regional Council.

On of the worshippers at the synagogue told Ynet, "We heard the explosion and were certain that the Qassam had landed inside our synagogue. The place is close to a school, and we thank the Lord on this day for the fact that no child was hurt by shrapnel or killed, God forbid."

The rockets were fired following three Israel Defense Forces strikes in the Gaza Strip on Friday night. Palestinian sources reported that five Hamas gunmen were killed in two IDF strikes in the southern Strip town of Rafah. In a third strike, the army hit a gunmen cell moving near the border fence.

The first strike occurred several hours after 48-year-old Jimmy Kdoshim, a member of Kibbutz Kfar Aza in the western Negev, was killed by a mortar shell fired by Palestinian gunmen and three people were injured.

Hamas' military wing, the Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades, claimed responsibility for the mortar attack.

Israeli aircraft sent missiles slamming into two Hamas police stations in southern Gaza, killing five militants, Hamas and Gaza health officials said. The Israeli military confirmed the airstrikes and said they were in retaliation for attacks on Israel, including the deadly mortar fire on Kfar Aza.
(Y Net News)

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