Today (05 June), Amnon Rosenberg of Kibbutz Nirim was killed by a mortar shell fired by Hamas that hit a paint factory in Kubbutz Nir Oz, southwest of Sderot in the Western Negev.  For more news, see the MFA website and JPost.

Hamas has recently increased its mortar fire from the Gaza Strip as it continued to indescriminately attack Israeli civilians living in the Western Negev.