At around noon on December 29th sirens warning of incoming missiles sounded in parts of Israel’s Western Negev region.
“Three rockets were fired from the Gaza Strip Friday, the army said, in the first such incident in over a week.
Two of the rockets were intercepted by the Iron Dome air defense system, while the third fell in Israeli territory in the Shaar Hanegev region, on the Gaza border.
Police said they found the rocket at the entrance to a building that had sustained damaged from the fall.
Rocket warning sirens were heard shortly before midday in the Shaar Hanegev and Sedot Hanegev regions, sending frightened residents running to shelters.”
The IDF later responded with strikes on two Hamas positions in the Gaza Strip.
The BBC did not produce any coverage of the incident.
Since the beginning of the year there have been sixteen separate incidents of missile attacks launched from the Gaza strip and five separate incidents of attacks launched from the Sinai Peninsula. The BBC’s English language services have reported just three (14%) of those attacks.
(The table relates only to missiles that landed in Israeli territory and does not include shortfalls, interceptions or failed attacks)
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