IDF says Sderot home damaged by Iron Dome missile fragment, not Gaza rocket

16 August 2020, 2:37 pm

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The Israeli military says the object that struck outside a home last night in the southern town of Sderot was not a rocket fired from Gaza — as was first reported by police — but was in fact a fragment of an Iron Dome interceptor missile that had shot down the incoming projectile.

“Regarding the report of a rocket strike near a home in Sderot last night, an IDF investigation found that it appears to be fragments of an interceptor that fell while intercepting the rockets fired from the Gaza Strip inside Israeli territory,” the military says.

The impact of the shrapnel lightly injured a 58-year-old man, and caused damage to the home, emergency response officials say.