[Blitzer:] The Israeli air strikes are targeting Hamas rocket launching and manufacturing sites in Gaza. In recent days, nearly 1,000 rockets have been fired into Israel. There have been casualties, but so far there have been no Israeli deaths linked to those attacks. Earlier, I had a chance to get an up close look at the remains of some of those Hamas rockets. And Micky Rosenfeld is joining us now. He's the spokesman for Israel's national police force. All right, so, Micky, you've collected some rockets, remnants of rockets here. We're in Sarot, not far from the Gaza border. These are rockets that came in from Gaza in recent days, is that right?
[Supt. Micky Rosenfeld, Israeli Police Spokesman:] Yes, what we have here in the Sarot police station, there are a number of different rockets that landed over the last 24 to 48 hours striking in the heart of Israel. These rockets have been fired by the Hamas, aimed at women and children and families. The rockets are brought here to the police station where they're examined. We see exactly what type of rockets they are, how much of a warhead there are, how many of an explosive device there are. And then I can tell you that these rockets, if they were to strike the city itself, they would cause tremendous damage.
[Blitzer:] Now these rockets were not intercepted by the iron dome anti- missile system, right?
[Rosenfeld:] All the rockets that are here haven't been intercepted. The rockets land in and around the different areas in the city. That's why it's tremendously important for the members of the public that are listening to the sirens when they go off to take cover. Where we're standing right now, we only have 15 seconds. If the sirens go off, we're heading straight into a safe zone. Otherwise, we'd be seriously injured or possibly killed.
[Blitzer:] Because we're that close to the Gaza border. All right, so what are these rockets? Give me an example of some of them.
[Rosenfeld:] I'll give you an example of what we have. We have different times of Qassam rockets. The most recent rockets that was fired, in fact, into Israel was, as you can see, a regular Qassam rocket. OK. This is just the leftovers of the rocket itself. We also have, as you can see, the fin of a Grad rocket. This Grad rocket itself is capable of striking within 52 kilometers into the heart of Israel, to the city of Belsheva, where, in fact, until the area of Belsheva are more than 1 million Israeli citizens, women and children, under the threat of these Grad rockets. Military made. You can see the fin on the back. Much more advanced. Ten kilos of explosives.
[Blitzer:] Did these rockets here cause any significant damage or did they land in sort of farmland?
[Rosenfeld:] All of the rockets that have landed and been brought here to the police station, landed in open areas. No direct strikes within the city over the last 24, 48 hours. But our units are on standby ready to respond. Each different area that takes a hit, our police units and our bomb disposal experts are on the scene.
[Blitzer:] It seems, at least so far, relatively quiet today, is that right?
[Rosenfeld:] Well, until now, throughout the morning, 36 rockets have been fired. Within the last 10 minutes, there was a rocket that was fired in Ashkelon, which is just 20 kilometers north of the Gaza Strip,
[Blitzer:] Now, what is this rocket over here? I want to walk over here. This one right over here, what is that?
[Rosenfeld:] This rocket is a rocket that was pulled out of the ground. You can see, I'll pick it up, it's very heavy. This rocket itself is a Qassam rocket. This isn't a military made rocket. It's a rocket that's been welded together with the inside the Gaza Strip. You know, Israel supports and helps the Palestinian population, helping them build the infrastructure, but what they do is they take advantage of both the pipes and the poles and they turn it into a lethal rocket that can strike inside Israel.
[Blitzer:] And these rockets inside here, these are from previous encounters, is that right, in years earlier?
[Rosenfeld:] Yes, the rockets we have over here, the different types of rockets throughout the years, since the year 2005, when rockets were fired inside of Israel. So we have different rockets, both 17 millimeters, 115 millimeters. We know that over the years, the rockets were developed and have succeeded both in terms of the distances that they can be fired, as well as the amount of warhead that they have inside them. The majority of the rockets that we have here landed inside the city itself. And our bomb disposal experts are based inside Zerot to react and respond as soon as the sirens go off.
[Blitzer:] I remember a few years ago when he was running for president, Barack Obama came here as a United States senator. You weren't here, though, when he was visiting here, were you?
[Rosenfeld:] The president came and visited and saw the rockets that had landed over the last 24, 48 hours, when, in fact, he was here. He was briefed on what had taken place in the region altogether, not just around the Sderot area, but in the southern region and what the population, the Israeli population, are up against, when the Hamas are firing into innocent populated areas.
[Blitzer:] I know when he speaks about the Middle East, he often refers to his visit here to Sderot. Micky Rosenfeld, thanks very much.
[Rosenfeld:] Thank you very much.
[Blitzer:] Up next, a bloody weekend in Baghdad. Attackers carried out a massacre in a middle class neighborhood. We're going live to the Iraqi capital. Also, Congress takes up the immigration crisis involving thousands of undocumented children who have slipped into the United States.