Several hours after his home was hit by a rocket from the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, Ashkelon resident Edward Weinstock recalled the terrifying moment he realized the rocket landed in his son's bedroom.
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"Sirens kept going off throughout the night," he said from the Soroka Medical Center in Beersheba, where he was hospitalized with moderate wounds. "Another siren went off again at 5 a.m., and the rocket landed in my child's bedroom. Luckily, he did not sleep in his room. I had just taken him out of there.
"I do not remember where it fell exactly, but I found myself on the floor, covered in shrapnel. Only I was injured. My family – wife and two kids – are alright," he said.
Magen David Adom paramedic Eitan Lasri said the city was on high alert. Hamas has launched more than 250 rockets into Israel in the last 24 hours, many of which landed in the coastal city.
"As soon as we heard the siren, we ran to the protected spaces. When reports came out on rockets hitting residential buildings, we got into our vehicles and ambulances," Lasri said.
Lasri and his colleagues treated several people who suffered shrapnel wounds, as well as shock victims, and some had to be hospitalized.
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