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http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3543378,00.html
“Rocket wounds 15 in Ashkelon”
SNIPPET: “Several Palestinian terror groups claim sole responsibility for launching of medium-range Grad rocket against crowded shopping mall in ‘message’ to Israel as foreign dignitaries gather in Jerusalem, including US President Bush. Paramedics race to free wounded shoppers trapped under rubble while IDF investigates why alert sirens failed to sound”
Shmulik Hadad
Latest Update: 05.14.08, 20:34 / Israel News
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “As US President George W. Bush and Prime Minister Ehud Olmert were sitting down to an intense two-hour meeting in Jerusalem early Wednesday evening, a Palestinian Grad rocket was launched from northern Gaza towards Israel.
The rocket crashed into a women’s health clinic on the second floor of a busy shopping mall in central Ashkelon just before 6:00 pm, wounding 15 people and burying several shoppers under piles of rubble. MDA paramedics dispatched to the scene fought to extract those trapped under large pieces of debris, including four people who were evacuated in serious condition, including a mother and her 2-year-old daughter, and 11 more who suffered from moderate wounds.
Medical personnel also treated 62 people for shock at the scene.
The Salah al—Din Brigades, the military wing of the Popular Resistance Committees, claimed responsibility for the attack.”
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http://www.terrorism-info.org.il/malam_multimedia/English/eng_n/html/may6_1308e.htm
Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center
at the Israel Intelligence Heritage & Commemoration Center (IICC)
“News of the Israeli-Palestinian Confrontation”
May 6-13, 2008
(May 14, 2008)
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http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3543460,00.html
Israel lodges formal complaint to UN following Ashkelon attack
Published: 05.14.08, 20:47 / Israel News
Israel’s Deputy Permanent Representative Amb. Danny Carmon sent a severe formal complaint late Wednesday to the UN Security Council following the rocket attack at the Ashkelon mall.
Israel demands the UN “to respond immediately and appropriately to the serious incident of harming one of life center of one of Israel’s main cities, causing dozens of injuries in a commercial mall.” (Yitzhak Benhorin, Washington)