Another Deadly Sderot Kassam

A 35-year-old man was killed on Sunday morning when a Kassam rocket slammed into the road near his car in Sderot, as rockets continued to rain on the southern town.

The man - identified as Oshri Oz, 35, from Hod Hasharon - was hit in the neck by shrapnel when the missile landed, and the car crashed into a wall. He was evacuated to Ashkelon's Barzilai Hospital in critical condition and died of his wounds shortly afterward.

According to Army Radio, Oz's wife found out about her husband's death on the Internet, where she saw the footage of the Kassam landing near his car.

Oz was a father of two and his widow is in the advanced stages of pregnancy. A friend of Oz told Army Radio that he was "amazing fellow, only good with no bad." The friend said Oz and him were part of a closely knit group of friends who have stayed together for over 25 years. "It's hard to speak of him in the past tense. He was always there for us," he said.

One other person was treated for shock. Hamas took responsibility for the attack.

The attack brought the morning's rocket tally to four, with two other rockets landing in open areas and one in a residential neighborhood. No casualties were reported in the earlier attacks.

The attack also marked the second Israeli fatality since the surge in Kassam fire that began several weeks ago.

Meanwhile, Sderot students prepared to return to classes in different cities due to the rocket threat. The Education Ministry commissioned transports to take Sderot students to classrooms out of Kassam-range, in the area between Ashdod and Beersheba.