Israeli occupation says retaliatory rocket attacks from Gaza injured settlers

[ 23/03/2011 - 06:31 PM ]

OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)-- The Israel occupation state admitted on Wednesday that 26 Israeli settlers were wounded when two grad rockets landed in the vicinity of Beersheba city in the early morning hours.

The Hebrew radio said the injured settlers were transferred to Soroka hospital for medical treatment.

It described the injuries of three of them as moderate and the others as slight, and noted that all of them are in a state of panic.

Al-Quds Brigades, the armed wing of Islamic Jihad, declared its responsibility for firing two grad rockets at Beersheba in response to the assassination of four of its resistance fighters, and the massacre of children and civilians in Shuja'ia neighborhood.

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