Ashkelon Mayor Tomer Galam says in a video that the city is in mourning over the death of a resident in a rocket attack.
“This is a tough hour for Ashkelon. We are all mourning. We are hurt and broken from the enormity of the tragedy that has befallen one of the oldest and most well-known families in the city,” he says.
The man who was killed has not been named by authorities.
His brother-in-law, who lives nearby, tells the Walla news site he ran over to the home that was hit after hearing the impact.
“I heard him screaming and I called an ambulance,” he says. “The rocket sirens were not stopping.”
A neighbor says there is heavy damage to the house that suffered a direct hit and other homes around it.
“This needs to stop already,” the neighbor tells Walla.
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