Around 1 PM today, Hamas fired a rocket at Ashkelon. It was a new missile, a 345mm with a huge warhead, that Israel had no idea that Hamas had. Its provenance is not known. It scored a direct hit on a home and two houses next to it were totally leveled. Dozens of buildings in a wide radius were damaged. 70 Israelis were wounded, 29 of them seriously. All wounded were apparently civilians.
At 6 PM, another Hamas rocket scored a direct hit on a kibbutz in the Eshkol District next to Gaza. 4 Israelis were wounded, 1 critically. Apparently all wounded were civilians.
In all 74 Israelis were wounded in the rocket barrage, 29 seriously and 1 critically.
An American yeshiva student from New Jersey has been missing since Friday when he went for a hike with a friend in the Jerusalem Forest. Police are searching for him.
