WRAP Hamas nighttime rocket attack on Sderot, daylight aftermath
(16 May 2007) SHOTLIST Sderot, Israel ++NIGHT SHOTS++ 1. Wide of police vehicles and ambulances at scene 2. Zoom in to hole in ground caused by rocket, lit by torchlight 3. Medium people tending to injured woman lying on ground 4. Wide of ambulances at scene 5. Injured woman being carried into ambulance 6. Injured woman lying on floor inside house 7. Wounded being attended to by medical staff, being carried into ambulance Ashkelon, Southern Israel 8. Pan of hospital interior 9. SOUNDBITE (Hebrew) Shiran, local: " They (Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Defence Minister Amir Peretz) should come and see our situation in Sderot. It is very bad. We have no place to go back to. I have no home. Our home is destroyed. My mother will be hospitalised for one or two months, I do not know for how long. We have nobody to help us. We have nothing. Where can I go to sleep today? My mother is in a very bad way." 10. People outside hospital smoking 11. Mid of hospital hallway Sderot, Israel 12. Sign for Sderot 13. Ambulance driving by in empty street 14. Various of damaged house 15. Various of damaged furniture and household items 16. Dog hiding behind ruble 17. Security officials in street 18. Mid of police car 19. Ambulance in street 20. Medical officials in street 21. Various damage in second house STORYLINE: Residents of Sderot on Wednesday surveyed the damage caused by Tuesday's rocket attacks. Hamas on Tuesday said it fired five rockets from Gaza at the Israeli town of Sderot, hitting a house and school and wounding 17 people, one seriously, group members and Israeli military said. One of the rockets hit a house in the town of Sderot, seriously wounding an Israeli mother. Her son was moderately wounded, rescue services said. Patients were taken to a hospital in nearby Ashkelon. The daughter of one of the women injured in the attack described her desperation, saying the Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Israeli Defence Minister Amir Peretz should come and see for themselves the situation in the area. "It is very bad. We have no place to go back to. I have no home. Our home is destroyed. My mother will be hospitalised for one or two months, I do not know for how long. We have nobody to help us. We have nothing. Where can I go to sleep today? My mother is in a very bad way," she told AP Television. Fifteen others were less seriously hurt, and 13 others were treated for shock, the highest casualty in Sderot in months. It was the first time in three weeks that Hamas has claimed responsibility for a rocket barrage. Hamas officials said the rocketing was retaliation for Israel's killing a major in the Palestinian Presidential Guard as he tried to leave the Karni crossing through an exit near the Israeli border, following clashes between Hamas and Fatah in the area earlier on Tuesday. The attack was carried out also to commemorate the May 15 founding of Israel in 1948, known to Palestinians as al-Naqba, as "the catastrophe", officials said. Israel hit back with airstrikes at open spaces in northern Gaza, the military said. Palestinian officials said no one was hurt. Peretz summoned army commanders for late-night consultations. Earlier on Tuesday, defence officials said Israel would not be dragged into the Hamas-Fatah fighting in Gaza. However, Israel closed Karni, the only route for cargo into Gaza. The closure means Gaza will soon run out of fuel for its power plant and electricity to most of the strip could be shut down by Wednesday morning, said Abdel Karim Abdeen, head of the Palestinian Energy Authority. Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter: / ap_archive Facebook: / aparchives Instagram: / apnews You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...
