Indeed, for months he ignored the pleas of residents of Sderot and told the IDF to suffice with artillery fire into empty fields and aerial bombings of terrorists enrouteto launching rockets.
The deadliest came in July 1991, when all 261 on board a Nigerian Airways airliner died after its landing gear caught fire shortly after takeoff in Saudi Arabia enrouteto Nigeria, and the plane went down.
So far this year seven pilgrims were killed and four wounded when gunmen in a speeding car opened fire and threw hand grenades at them as they were enrouteto Baghdad from the Dabouniyah area, 75 miles to the southeast.