Six people were injured, two seriously, in Beersheba this afternoon when a Grad rocket fired from Gaza landed in a residential area of the city. A boy sustained serious wounds to his head and a woman was severely hurt after the rocket scored a direct hit on a nearby vehicle.

Rocket hit on Beersheba car

This is the first case of Beershebans suffering physical injuries from a rocket strike since the war began 20 days ago.

I was in my friend Jacob’s apartment at the time, and from the building’s bomb shelter we could hear three “booms” loud and clear. However, the news is reporting that only two rockets were fired at Beersheba; the second presumably landed in an open area somewhere.

Nevertheless, the most damaging rocket struck very near to the university and in a good friend’s neighborhood. Fortunately, she and her family are OK.

So much for things getting better.  I wonder if my university is rethinking its “practical” decision to resume classes this week.

Below is a video I shot of me and my friends running to the basement bomb shelter. You can hear all three booms.

We were laughing as we ran, completely desensitized to the sound of the siren as we had heard it almost every day in the last two and a half weeks.  But reality quickly set in when we learned just how devastating this attack turned out to be.

Complacency is impossible during war.