From JPost, Jun. 12, 2006, by TOVAH LAZAROFF ...
A total of 15 Kassam rockets have rained down on Sderot and the western Negev since midnight Sunday, following an unprecedented day of rocket fire in which one person was seriously wounded by shrapnel and a number of buildings damaged.
'Destroy Beit Hanun or Sderot will become a ghost town', was the message Sderot mayor Eli Moyal on Sunday delivered personally to Ra'anan Dinur, the director-general of the Prime Minister's Office.
...Internal Security Minister Avi Dichter caused waves when he made a similar suggestion regarding Beit Hanun in a cabinet meeting only a week ago. At the time, both Peretz and Prime Minister Ehud Olmert objected to such action.
At this Sunday's cabinet meeting, Olmert said, "This firing is very serious. It strikes at the fabric of life in communities in southern Israel and threatens people's lives."
...The communities near Gaza have sustained more than 500 rocket attacks since Israel withdrew from Gaza in August 2006 ... more than 3,000 rocket attacks have been launched against the area since April 2001......
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