After almost 15 hours of quiet, rocket fire from Gaza has renewed now (Monday), with red color sirens heard in Ashkelon and Gaza Perimeter settlements including Yad Mordechai, Nativ Ha’asarah, and Karmia. Magen David Adom reported that they have received no calls about hits or casualties.
This is the first salvo fired from Gaza today, with the last cases of rocket fire from the Strip registered last night. At 19:00, fire against Beer Sheva and Ofakim was reported, with rockets fired at Netivot two hours later. Despite threats from Islamic Jihad to fire on the center of the country, no sirens have been heard from 21:00 until the current salvo.
Before this attack, it was reported that a soldier was killed and three wounded moderately and lightly after Hamas terrorists fired an anti-tank missile at an IDF tank on the Kissufim crossing while the soldiers were clearing the area of terrorists and trying to locate missing and bodies. This is the first time terrorists fired a missile towards an Israeli force since the first days of the war.
This morning, it was cleared for release that the soldier killed was 19 year old Corporal Tamir Barak from Nir Eliyahu, who served as a mechanical engineering equipment soldier in the southern brigade of the Combat Engineering Corps. The number of IDF soldiers killed since the beginning of the fighting has thus gone up to 308.