This Friday morning shelling was heard near the Ashkelon train station. Despite being a protected area, the explosions were audible and frightened some of the passengers, including a soldier who could not remove his hand from his chest.
The station chief, clearly very used to this type of situation, said it would take two or three minutes to calm the people down and it did.
Israel has concentrated forces near the Gaza Strip in a sign of a possible ground offensive, after bombing territory controlled by the Islamist group Hamas in recent days.
The escalation of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict was sparked by Hamas’ unprecedented incursion into Israel on Saturday, which killed civilians and soldiers and took more than a hundred hostages, taken to the Gaza Strip.
Since then, the conflict has caused more than 1,300 deaths on the Israeli side and more than 1,500 on the Palestinian side. Israeli bombings also left more than 423,000 people displaced in the Gaza Strip.
Source: TSF
