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Gaza Rocket Finds a Rare Gap in Israeli Armor, and a Boy Is Killed
When a rocket struck an Israeli border town, Ido Avigal, 5, was sheltering in a fortified safe room. But shrapnel still managed to puncture the thick window, killing him.
Israel’s Iron Dome antimissile defense weapons, designed to intercept incoming rockets and artillery shells, in Sderot.Credit.Jack Guez/Agence France-Presse Getty Images
Published May 14, 2021Updated May 17, 2021
SDEROT, Israel It was 1:30 p.m. on Friday in Sderot, and Ido Avigal, 5, was being laid to rest a few miles to the north. He had been killed in what officials termed a freak incident two days earlier when a rocket from Gaza made a direct hit on the building next door to his aunt’s apartment, where he was visiting with his mother and older sister.
When a rocket struck an Israeli border town, Ido Avigal, 5, was sheltering in a fortified safe room. But shrapnel still managed to puncture the thick window, killing him.
A closed gas pump in Falls Church, Va. Gas prices have risen in several states as drivers rush to fill their tanks.Credit.Kevin Lamarque/Reuters
The operator of the Colonial Pipeline is expected to announce on Wednesday a timetable for resuming service of its vital fuel pipeline, which stretches from Texas to New Jersey and has been shut down since Friday after a ransomware attack.
At best, it would take several days and probably at least through the weekend to return gasoline, diesel and jet fuel shipments to normal. At worst, any delays could further encourage the panic buying that left thousands of outlets out of gasoline in Tennessee, Georgia and several other states in the Southeast, pushing up regional fuel prices.
Evictions in Jerusalem Become Focus of Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
The effort to evict six Arab families from a contested neighborhood has drawn attention to the Israeli effort to remove Palestinians from parts of East Jerusalem and led to protests.
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Palestinians protested ahead of a decision that will come from the Israeli Supreme Court on whether to uphold the eviction of six families from a neighborhood in East Jerusalem in favor of Jewish settlers.CreditCredit.Jean-Pierre Dunand/Agence France-Presse Getty Images
May 7, 2021
JERUSALEM In confrontations with Palestinian protesters over the past week in Sheikh Jarrah, a Palestinian neighborhood in East Jerusalem, the Israeli police sprayed so much skunk water, a noxious liquid used to deter demonstrators, that its stench lingered over nearby streets.