Thursday, 7 April 2011



Children's School Bus Hit with Anti-Tank Missile, 15 Rockets and Mortars Fired at Southern Israel


In response to an incident in which a children's school bus was hit with an
anti-tank missile near Sa'ad in the Sdot Negev Regional Council, IDF forces
targeted several sites in the Gaza Strip.

Additionally, forces returned fire at areas from which 15 rockets and
mortars have been fired at Israel in the last hour.

The IDF will continue to operate in the Gaza Strip according to security
assessment.

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A wounded Israeli is treated by medics at the site where an Israeli school bus was hit by a mortar shell fired from the Gaza Strip near the border between southern Israel and Gaza Wednesday, April 7, 2011. A Palestinian mortar shell from the Gaza Strip struck a school bus in southern Israel Thursday, wounding two people, including one child critically, Israeli officials said.

An injured bus driver reacts after his bus was hit by a mortar shell fired from the Gaza Strip into the Israeli kibbutz of Sa'ad April 7, 2011. A mortar shell fired from the Gaza Strip into Israel on Thursday hit a bus, seriously wounding a teenage boy and injuring several others, Israeli police said.

An Israeli school bus hit by a mortar shell fired from the Gaza Strip is seen on the road near the border between southern Israel and Gaza Wednesday, April 7, 2011. A Palestinian mortar shell from the Gaza Strip struck a school bus in southern Israel Thursday, wounding two people, including one child critically, Israeli officials said.




Israeli soldiers run past a bus after a mortar shell hit it in the southern Israeli kibbutz of Sa'ad April 7, 2011. A mortar shell fired from the Gaza Strip into Israel on Thursday hit a bus, seriously wounding a teenage boy and injuring several others, Israeli police said.