Israel´s Ambassador to the U.N. Ron Prosor sends letter of complaint to U.N. Security Council following recent barrages of rockets fired from Gaza into Israel • "The only thing that Hamas is ´reforming´ in the area are the capabilities of its rockets to reach further and further into Israel," Prosor says.

"When it is quiet in Sderot and Beersheba, it will be quiet in Gaza,” Israel´s Ambassador to the U.N. Ron Prosor said Thursday in a letter sent to the U.N. Security Council and U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki- moon.

The letter of complaint comes after several barrages of rockets launched from the Gaza Strip hit the south of Israel in recent days.

Prosor noted that more than 120 rockets were fired into southern Israeli communities by Hamas and other terrorists in the Gaza Strip just this week.

In one rocket attack near the Hof Ashkelon Regional Council on Tuesday night, one Border Policeman sustained moderate shrapnel wounds and three others were lightly wounded. Israel Air Force warplanes attacked seven terror targets in Gaza over the past two days in response to the rocket fire.

Residents of the south have been periodically forced into bomb shelters, but most schools are operating. Four Iron-Dome anti-rocket batteries have been made operational in the area, and for the first time, one of them is protecting the city of Netivot, Army Radio reported.

"The lives of one million Israeli civilians remain paralyzed," Prosor said in the letter. "The glare of each exploding rocket lights up the truth about the situation in Gaza. The only thing that Hamas is ´reforming´ in the area are the capabilities of its rockets to reach further and further into Israel."

Addressing the responsibilities of the U.N. Security Council, Prosor said, “The Security Council — which often speaks at great length about the welfare of the people of Gaza — should finally acknowledge a simple truth: the people of Gaza will face hardship as long as Hamas uses them as human shields to fire rockets into Israeli cities."

He continued, “The Council has a duty to raise its voice about the roar of rockets that continues to come out of the Gaza Strip. Israel expects the Security Council and all responsible members of the international community to condemn these attacks, immediately and unequivocally.”

Meanwhile, in the northern Israeli community of Maor a synagogue was vandalized overnight Thursday, according to Army Radio. The Shahada, a creed every Muslim believer has to recite, was spray-painted in Arabic on several walls inside the building. "There is God but Allah and Muhammad is his messenger," read the graffiti. On Monday a mosque near Ramallah was set ablaze and vandalized with graffiti that read "Ulpana War", in what was a suspected "price tag" attack (a term used to describe alleged vandalism and other forms of violence by settler youth who want to protest government policy or seek to retaliate for terrorist incidents). The mosque attack may have been carried out to protest the government intent to go ahead with the evacuation of several apartment blocks in Beit El´s Ulpana neighborhood, a move which angered many on the right. "The war has begun," "Pay the price," were also spray-painted on the mosque.

Responding to the latest incident, MK Uri Yehuda Ariel (National Union) lamented on what he called the left´s double standard when it comes to alleged Arab-instigated vandalism. "It´s amazing how when certain acts are carried out against the nation´s most sacred symbols, all the bleeding hearts suddenly turn mute and move on as if nothing happened," Ariel said, according to the Israeli news portal NRG. "This is a grave incident and I expect the police to make every effort to find out who the culprits are, just like they would have done had a mosque been vandalized."