A Qassam rocket hangs on a wall in Sderot. Every Qassam is retrieved and catalogued (note Hebrew writing on the tube) for future use in registering claims against the Palestinian terrorists who launched it.
Posted on 05/12/2007 5:03:34 AM PDT by rhema
Magen David Adom crews, operating from the antiquated MDA Sderot Station, have been even busier than usual during the past two weeks. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has confirmed that at least 14 Qassam rockets were fired from the Gaza Strip at Israel from Friday, May 4 to today with at least four rockets landing in and around the city. One Qassam hit a house next to a kindergarten in Sderot on Monday, May 7 but caused no injuries. Another rocket hit a house in the municipality on Saturday. Luckily, no one was home at the time of the attack.
On April 24, Hamas gunmen fired 10 Qassamim and more than a dozen mortar rounds along the northern Gaza border, causing damage to property in both Sderot and neighboring communities. MDA paramedics treated a number of people for shock, however there were no serious injuries reported. Another rocket on April 21 hit a home in Sderot. MDA medics arriving on the scene cared for six people suffering from shock.
Throughout last summer's war with Hizbollah in Lebanon, Israel's border with Gaza and especially Sderot, Ashkelon and the surrounding areas were the targets of constant rocket attacks. In November, Hamas agreed to a ceasefire. However other groups, including Islamic Jihad, continued to fire on Israel, launching more than 200 Qassams at Sderot and the western Negev. The announcement by the Izz-el-Din al-Qassam Brigades, Hamas' military wing, that they were responsible for the April 24 attack and that the five month ceasefire "no longer exists" is of great concern to everyone in the region. In addition, the IDF Southern Command has identified that attack as a diversion planned to allow Hamas guerrillas to kidnap an IDF soldier. Army intelligence and ground forces in the area were able to prevent that from happening.
A Qassam rocket hangs on a wall in Sderot. Every Qassam is retrieved and catalogued (note Hebrew writing on the tube) for future use in registering claims against the Palestinian terrorists who launched it.
Why all the fuss?
It’s just those zany Mahometans doing the things they do best, kill, maim, destroy, torture, rape, just like their “prophet” the original HamHead himself, Mahomet.
We must learn to value their culture, after all.
for future use in registering claims
Eliminate the source or there may be no future.
Islamic Nazi terror rockets attack innocents.
Bears go in the woods.
Dr. Rice demands “Restraint” by the victims of the rockets.
The Pope is Catholic.
The UN and EU and State Dept. fund more terrorism.
Water is wet.
Olmert falls asleep during rocket attacks.
The sky is blue.
IMHO you’re Correct. They give back Gaza so the terrorists have a closer hence better shot. Very disturbing and not at all encouraging if there is to be a long run.
Quassam missiles happen to be on of the focal point of the hamas for kids website...
I have an important news flash for Sderot and the rest of Israel :
IT IS OK TO SHOOT BACK!!
When N. Korea fired a few artillery shells at S. Korea, the S. Koreans lined up battery after battery of artillery, hub to hub a mile long, and then gave N. Korea a lengthy barrage in return. N. Korea did not fire at S. Korea again.
THIS WORKS.
The message is trans-cultural and understood even by the dim-witted.
It is not possible to misunderstand it or interpret it in any fashion other than the one intended.
Next time a rocket hits Sederot, SHOOT BACK!
The message will not be misunderstood.
And they are busily teaching their children these skills as well.....
http://www.lauramansfield.com
Early childhood education the HAMAS way:
HAMAS kids website teaches kids about Qassam weapons
By Laura Mansfield
I’ve written about the HAMAS website for children, al-fateh.net, on several occasions. So when I saw the articles about HAMAS adopting a Mickey Mouse “clone” to incite hatred against Israel, I thought it might be a good time to check back in on al-fateh.net and see what they were publishing these days.
I was surprised to see that they have carried the promotion of violence to new levels.
Al-fateh.net is a popular website in the Arab world. It has a 3-month worldwide ranking of 60,139 on Alexa.com, a popular site for tracking popularity of websites. In the Palestinian territories it ranks around 2,000, and ranks in the 3,000 - 8,000 range in the UAE, Saudi Arabia, and Egypt.
The website features colorful cartoons along with articles aimed at elementary school aged children, and encourages kids to send in photographs and letters. The site uses a magazine format, updating on a regular basis.
Well, it seems that al-fateh.net is celebrating the 99th edition of al-fateh.net, and in commemoration of this event they are featuring the Qassam missile on it’s front page. The Qassam missile is a locally made surface to surface missile that HAMAS regularly lobs into Israel.
When you click on the photograph on the front page showing the launch of the missiles, you’re taken to a page that chronicles the “kills” made by the Qassam launches.
A translation of one of these “kills” says:
On April 14, Qassam missiles killed four Jewish settlers and wounded several others, and badly damaged a number of buildings and cars when four rockets landed in the Jewish colony of Asderott in the Western Negev
The page closes with the following events on April 25:
On April 25 Zionist soldiers were moderately injured after Zionist military patrol came under heavy fire from the Mujahideen Palestinians in the old city of Hebron.
Two Zionist soldiers suffered wounds ranging from slight to moderate when shot by the Mujahideen Palestinians near one of the Zionist settlements near the West Bank town of Jenin.
This is nothing new.
The al-fateh.net website has been advocating violence for years.
Advocating violence is nothing new or unique on the internet either.
But this is an official website of HAMAS, the democratically elected party in control in the Palestinian “terrortories”. How can anyone expect them to be a party in good faith in any sort of peace negotiations when they indoctrinate their children with hate in such a systematic manner?
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