The long-range rocket that slammed into a seven-story building in Rishon Lezion Tuesday night leveled apartments on the top two floors and left a layer of shattered glass, concrete dust and shrapnel covering the street below…….

Fortunately only six people were wounded. The atmosphere closely resembled that after a major terrorist attack or disaster: Dozens of search and rescue personnel were combing the area to clear out survivors, and police and soldiers were on hand along with hundreds of journalists and bystanders.

“[Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu] has spoken for years about Iran, but he can’t even handle Gaza,” he declared. “He’s a nebbach [pathetic person], and Israel has to go do what we have to do and go into Gaza like we did in the West Bank in Operation Defensive Shield [in 2002], until the problem is solved.”

Erez Ozeri and his son Miro were sitting in their ground-floor apartment when they heard the rocket warning siren and rushed to their safe room. After the attack, they said, they came outside only to see their apartment entirely ruined inside, even though it was seven floors below the impact.

“I’m in favor of going in [to Gaza] and dealing with this like we need to. I don’t want us to agree to some cease-fire and then in another six months or a year just have them firing on us all over again,” Erez said. “They only understand force.”

Eliza Levy, who also lives on the street, demanded to know, “How is the government thinking of a ceasefire when they’re still shelling us?” Levy – who has three children, including two sons in their mid-20s who have not yet received reserve-duty call-up orders – said that “of course we’re worried about the soldiers, but we have to take care of this problem.”