Four Gaza rockets hit Sderot as Obama visits Israel

Two of the four rockets fired from Gaza early Thursday landed in the town, one in the backyard of a home causing damage to property but no casualties immediately reported.

DEBKAfile: The attack was launched from the Hamas-ruled enclave the day of visiting US President Barack Obama’s side-trip to Ramallah as the guest of the rival Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas. Wednesday, at a joint news conference with Binyamin Netanyahu winding up the first day of his visit to Israel, the US president stressed that the rockets must stop and people have every right to a life without their homes being destroyed and their children prevented from going to school.