Military: 2 Gaza rockets hit Israel synagogue, college
JERUSALEM — The Israeli army says a rocket fired from the Gaza Strip fell next to a Jewish seminary in southern Israel and damaged the building.
No one was hurt in Saturday's rocket strike in the border town of Sderot, Israel' army said. A second rocket fell in the courtyard of Sapir College in Sderot, it said.
An Israeli soldier watches a helicopter land at the scene where a man was killed by a mortar fired by Palestinian militants in Gaza, in Kfar Aza, southern Israel, just outside the Gaza Strip, Friday, May 9 2008. Palestinian militants fired four mortars at Israel from the Gaza Strip late Friday, killing the 40-year-old Israeli man and wounding three other people, police and rescue officials said. The radio of Gaza's ruling Hamas movement said the group was responsible for the mortar fire on the southern Israeli community of Kfar Aza. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)
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The rocket attack came a day after mortar shells fired by militant Hamas killed an Israeli man in an Israeli communal farm near Gaza.
Israel fired missiles at two Hamas police station in retaliation and killed five Hamas members.
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