**Two Kassam rockets landed in an open area in Ashkelon on Wednesday morning. One person was very lightly injured.

09:02: Sirens sounding in Ashdod and Yavne. A rocket landed in a community near Ashdod. No injuries.

**The security cabinet on Wednesday morning will convene in the Defense Ministry, not Jerusalem, to permit senior IDF officers to present their information while monitoring the situation in Gaza.

**Police arrested four PA (Palestinian Authority) residents in Nazareth found to be carrying forged Israeli identity cards.

**It is being reported that during a meeting in Damascus with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on Tuesday, French President Nicolas Sarkozy demanded proof that captive IDF soldier Gilad Shalit is alive. Wednesday is Shalit’s 927th day in Hamas captivity.

(Yechiel Spira – YWN Israel)