First fatality in Israel as Hamas unleashes barrage of rockets across Gaza border

Israeli soldiers clear debris at the scene after a rocket fired by Palestinian militants in Gaza landed in Ashdod July 15, 2014

First Israeli citizen has been killed by a rocket from Gaza since the IDF began its Operation Protective Edge on July 7. A civilian in his 30s was critically injured at the Erez crossing on the Gaza border and died later of wounds.

The first Israeli victim of the week-long conflict was a volunteer delivering supplies to Israeli soldiers deployed at the border with the Gaze Strip, police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said as cited by AP.

(RT)