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Gaza Rocket Reaches North of Major Israeli City; IDF Responds
The Mideast Update ^ | August 16, 2011 | Joshua Spurlock

Posted on 08/17/2011 5:13:50 AM PDT by Tzfat

The Gaza rocket attacks took an unexpected escalation Monday night as a grad rocket was fired north of the Israeli city of Beersheba, roughly 40 kilometers from the Gaza Strip, according to the IDF Twitter page. Beersheba is one of the largest cities in Israel’s south and one of the farthest locations reached thus far by Gaza rocket fire. The IDF Twitter feed did not report any injuries or damage.

It was the first time since April that a Gaza rocket had reached the vicinity of the city...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Israel; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: idf; israel; terrorism

1 posted on 08/17/2011 5:13:52 AM PDT by Tzfat
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2 posted on 08/17/2011 5:21:05 AM PDT by SJackson (Normal people don't sit cross-legged on the floor and bang on drums, WI State Sen Glenn Grothman (R))
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To: Tzfat

Bounce the rubble.


3 posted on 08/17/2011 5:22:18 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (Eh ?)
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To: Tzfat

The IDF said in a statement that they “will not tolerate any attempt to harm Israeli civilians and IDF soldiers, and will respond with determination to any attempt to use terror against the State of Israel.”

The Palies will keep firing rockets because the politicians won’t allow the IDF to use an effective method of shutting this down completely. The Muzzies know this and they just keep on launching. But then again the Leftists in the Knesset don’t mind seeing their fellow Jew die or suffer at hands of the Muzzies.


4 posted on 08/17/2011 5:23:47 AM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine!)
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To: Jack Hydrazine

The IDF should be able to shoot those rockets out of the sky IMHO.


5 posted on 08/17/2011 5:36:21 AM PDT by Citizen Tom Paine (An old sailor sends)
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To: Citizen Tom Paine

Iron Dome has made successful intercepts, but it has to be deployed and in the proper area.


6 posted on 08/17/2011 5:39:58 AM PDT by edpc (Ruck Famadan)
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To: Tzfat

Where is the XM-785 artillery round?


7 posted on 08/17/2011 6:21:47 AM PDT by Rannug ("God has given it to me, let him who touches it beware.")
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To: SJackson

When I was 12 I was a school chess champion and went to a competition in Beersheba.

I was crushed in a pathetic number of moves; I can’t even remember the real number -— I used to add 10 or 20 moves to it to make it not so sad, and now I can’t remember the real number.

It’s kind of a big town now, 200,000 or so.

Lots of Russians and Jewish people from various African countries.


8 posted on 08/17/2011 7:56:44 AM PDT by Jewbacca (The residents of Iroquois territory may not determine whether Jews may live in Jerusalem.)
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