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DEFENSE MINISTER VISITS VICTIM KASSAM SCENE

Wednesday, February 27, 2008

Defense Minister Ehud Barak, leader of the Labour Party came to visit Sapir and the scene where a Kassam killed an Israeli Man earlier today in Sapir College, Sderot Israel on Wednesday February 27, 2008. One person was killed, several were wounded and many were treated for shock Wednesday as least 50 Qassam rockets slammed into the western Negev town of Sderot and surrounding communities. The 47-year-old man called Roni Yechiah was apparently in a car, parked next to Sapir College on the outskirts of Sderot, which was hit by a Qassam. He suffered lethal shrapnel wounds to the chest. The rocket barrage occurred hours after an Israel Air Force strike killed five Hamas militants in the Gaza Strip who were apparently planning a large scale terrorist attack against Israel after having been trained in Iran and Syria. Palestinian officials said two more people, including a civilian, were killed in a second IAF airstrike carried out immediately after the Qassam attack against Sderot. All photos by Rafael Ben-Ari/Chameleons Eye.

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