Upon returning home, a Jewish family saw the house wall damaged by a direct hit of Kassam rocket, named after mullah Izz ad Din Kassam, instigator of Jewish pogroms in Palestine when there was no Jewish state yet and no occupied lands of 1967.
Several other shells and rocket landed in the Negev townships.




The imbecile president of Israel called Shimon Peres approved hoopoe as Israel’s official symbol. Judaism, incidentally, declares hoopoe as non-kosher, unclean bird. Josephus proudly describes an incident where the Roman troops brought standards with eagle into Jerusalem, at which point the entire population gathered and offered their necks to be killed rather than allow the forbidden image in the Jewish capital.