Manufacturers Association: Economic costs of Kassams rockets attack at NIS 60m

The Manufacturers Associations also blamed the government for failing to protect the lives of over 5,000 workers in about 40 factories
 
The economic department of the Manufacturers Association of Israel estimated last Thursday that direct and indirect financial costs of Kassams rockets falling in the border city of Sderot had reached NIS 60 million and over 150 employees have abandoned their jobs at manufacturing plants.
 
The Manufacturers Associations of Israel blamed the government for failing to protect the lives of over 5,000 workers in about 40 factories adding that as much as 90% of the factories and plants in the Gaza vicinity area are not fortified.
 
A few hundred residents of Sderot left the city Thursday morning on buses chartered by the Ministry of Defense and the Sderot Municipality, headed for a brief respite in a leisure facility run by the non-profit organization Friends of the IDF. 
 
As violence in the Gaza Strip and Kassam rocket fire on Sderot continue, opposition Party Chairman Benjamin Netanyahu called on the Israeli Government to take action, including harsher military action and cutting off water and power to the Gaza Strip.
 
In response to continuous launchings of rockets into Israel and other terrorist activities executed by Hamas and other terrorist organizations, the Israeli Defense Force carried out an air strike against Hamas headquarters in Gaza City, in the northern Gaza Strip.