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09/04/2011 17: 40 On five rockets were fired Saturday afternoon in Gaza to Ashkelon and the western Negev. No injuries have been reported.
A rocket exploded in an industrial zone South of Ashkelon, and another exploded near a town in the Ashkelon Coast Regional Council. An another three rockets fell in open areas.
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The Iron Dome system was able to intercept one of the rockets, bringing the total number of intercepted since Thursday to eight rockets.
Since Saturday morning, more than 40 rockets and mortars were fired from Gaza, in the cities of the southern Beersheva, Ashkelon, Sderot, Ofakim and Kiryat Gat.
Friday day day 15 graduates were fired from Gaza on Israeli territory. The Iron Dome rocket defense system intercepted five of them in the areas of Beersheba and Ashkelon, Israel Radio reported.
Saturday morning, two additional Grad rockets were fired on Ofakim and 25 mortar shells were fired in Eshkol Regional Council. No injuries were reported immediately. Dozens of mortar shells were fired from one day to the next day.
Including of Kassams and mortars, projectiles over 40 were fired from the band of since the escalation began Thursday.
Five Israelis have been wounded in scrambling to enter shelters as rockets fired in their fields.
Three Hamas commanders were killed in an IAF airstrike early Saturday morning on a car in the southern Gaza town of Rafah. Palestinian news agencies reported a fourth Hamas, was killed in an IDF strike late Saturday morning. The IDF said that he was looking in the reports.
Palestinian press agency my ' year reported that other IDF strikes took place during the night in the city of Gaza, a training base of Hamas in the North of the band, and a district in Khan Younis.
Artillery strikes have been reported in the Rafah area along the southern border of the band with the Egypt.
Reuters contributed to this report.
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