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Grad rockets strike Beersheba for second straight day.

Beersheba entered its second day on the home front of the war in the South on Wednesday as Kassam and long-range Grad-type rockets continued to rain down on the western Negev.
The rocket attacks resumed at around 8:00 a.m., when several Grad-type rocket struck Beersheba, and one Kassam rocket struck an open area in the Sha'ar Hanegev region. No one was wounded in either attack, and there were no initial reports of damage.
Following the attacks, the Home Front Command instructed Beersheba residents to stay within secured areas and await further instructions.
Almost all schools within a 40 km. radius from the Gaza Strip were heeding a recommendation by the Home Front Command not to conduct studies, bringing the total number of pupils affected to nearly 180,000. The one exception was Ben-Gurion University, which announced that classes would be held according to schedule.
Hamas flexed its muscles Tuesday night and fired two rockets into Beersheba. One of the Katyusha rockets struck a kindergarten in Beersheba, causing damage. Another rocket hit outside the city in an open field.
The IDF bombed the launcher of the Grad-model rockets afterward, as well as the cell responsible. The army said it successfully hit its target.
Defense officials had warned that Hamas had the ability to fire rockets into Beersheba - located some 40 kilometers from Gaza - but Tuesday night's attack was the first time the city's 200,000 residents came under Hamas rocket fire.
Earlier, rockets struck Ashdod and Ashkelon, where two people were killed in attacks on Monday. Grad-model Katyushas also hit open fields near Kiryat Malachi.
In total, more than 50 rockets struck the South on Tuesday, with one scoring a direct hit on a home in Sderot. No one was wounded in the attack, as the family had taken refuge in a nearby secure room.

Источник: By JPOST.COM STAFF AND YAAKOV KATZ