Stop the Hamas rockets and the place will become a paradise in no time.

David Newman, a professor of politics in Beersheva, Israel, a city which has been a target of Hamas rockets, explains why there .

For years Hamas rockets were fortunately more like fire-crackers than bombs, but since the start of 2004, 149 high-explosive rockets have been launched from Gaza.

Yes, the Hamas rockets must stop.

This means that settlement building by Israel is a provocation to the Palestinians and the Hamas rockets are a provocation to the Israelis.

During the war, a Hamas rocket hit an Israeli kindergarten in Beersheba, causing damage to the building and to a nearby house.

In the evening two men in the Israeli community of Mivtahim were injured, one seriously, by a direct hit by a Hamas rocket.

A number of Hamas rockets hit the city of Beersheba (population 186,000) in southern Israel, with one exploding on an empty school.

During the conflict, life in much of southern Israel was paralyzed by Hamas rocket and mortar fire.

The operation was planned to round up militants and destroy factories that made the two Hamas rockets, known as Qassam-2's.