في سابقة هي الأولى من نوعها منذ بداية الحرب أول شريط فيديو لصاروخ من صواريخ كتائب الشهيد عز الدين القسام الذراع العسكري لحركة المقاومة الإسلامية (حماس) التى إلتقطتها إحدى كامرات المراقابة مدينة عسقلان الساحلية داخل الأراضي الفلسطينية المحتلة عام 48. و كذلك الأول من نوعه على اليوتوب. لم ينجم عن سقوط الصاروخ أي إصابات تذكر. A hamas missile Caught on camera surveillance landed in the city of Ashkelon this evening it's not known yet if it's a Katyusha rocket or a kassam's rocket. The Grad-type Katyusha missile slammed into an area in the city of Ashkelon, one of Israels largest cities, no injuries were reported. Katyusha rockets were widely used by Hizbullah to bombard northern Israel during the Second Lebanon War. They have already in the past been fired toward Ashkelon and Eilat, but have not yet come into wide use. The longer-range rockets place hundreds of thousands of Israelis under fire, in addition to those already living around Gaza The Izz-al-Din al-Qassam Brigades said that it would step up rocket attacks against Israel if the bombardment was not ended. "We tell the leaders of the enemy - if you continue with your assault, we will hit with our rockets further than the cities we have hit so far," a masked spokesman said in a televised statement. Hamas said on Wednesday that it would fight "until the last breath" if Israel sent ground forces into Gaza. "Israel will embark on a veritable adventure if it decides to invade Gaza. We have prepared surprises for them," Mushir al-Masri, a senior Hamas official, said. Ayman Mohyeldin, Al Jazeera's correspondent in Gaza, said that in the event of a ground incursion, Palestinian factions felt that they had the advantage, due to the preparations they have made over the past six months of the truce. "They say they have acquired new weapons, new munitions, new explosive devices and this is where they feel they enjoy more of an advantage in terms of the ability to face an Israeli incursion," he said. "They certainly know they can't compete with Israel's air superiority and that is why Israel has been warned against launching a [ground] operation here in Gaza."