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Iron dome intercepts rockets over Beersheba, Ashkelon after IAF strikes Gaza
Jerusalem Post ^ | 07/05/2014 | By JPOST.COM STAFF, YAAKOV LAPIN

Posted on 07/05/2014 10:28:18 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

The Iron Dome rocket defense system intercepted four rockets fired from the Gaza Strip toward southern Israel on Saturday night.

Three rockets were shot down over Asheklon after the rocket defense system intercepted a projectile fired at Beersheba.

Another rocket fell in an open area near Ashkelon, and a second one exploded in Sha'ar Hanegev.

Earlier in the evening, the Israel Air Force struck three terror sites in southern Gaza Strip in response to a continuous barrage of rockets fired at southern Israel throughout the day.

"The IDF is prepared to defend Israeli citizens from any threat and will continue to act decisively and as long as necessary until quiet the routine are restored," the IDF Spokesperson's Unit said in a statement.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Israel; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: gaza; irondome; israel; palestine; stih

1 posted on 07/05/2014 10:28:18 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

How dare those nasty Israelis shoot down the poor Paletinians rockets!!!!!!!


2 posted on 07/05/2014 10:37:05 AM PDT by JW1949
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To: JW1949

Rockets we no doubt paid for. May they make Gaza look like a gold course compared to the moon.


3 posted on 07/05/2014 10:54:29 AM PDT by mcshot (..."And this too shall pass.")
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To: SeekAndFind

Isn’t this the month of Ramadan? I thought they all stopped fighting? Or is it they just stop fighting each other?


4 posted on 07/05/2014 11:23:20 AM PDT by ColdOne (I miss my poochie... Tasha 2000~3/14/11))
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To: JW1949

Why is it that a small ragtag group of ISIS terrorists has been able to conquer half of Iraq in barely two weeks, yet the mighty Israeli Defense Forces have not been able to put Hamas out of commission after years of trying?

Israel does not have to reconquer Gaza, all it has to do is bomb Hamas’s missile sites so they no longer threaten Israeli kindergarteners, yet the Israeli Powers That Be refuse to do that. And we think WE have a weak president.


5 posted on 07/05/2014 11:29:07 AM PDT by Bluestocking
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To: Bluestocking

Hamas doesn’t place it’s missile sites at military locations...They place ‘em right in the middle of women and children...


6 posted on 07/05/2014 11:47:08 AM PDT by JW1949
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To: JW1949

But women and children can be saved by giving them warnings to evacuate the premises before the bombs hit.

If Menachem Begin and his Irgun forces hadn’t bombed the King David hotel — after giving warnings — in the late 1940s, the British occupiers would not have left Palestine and there would be no Israel today.

If Benjamin Netanyahu and his IDF are not willing to similarly bomb Hamas missile sites today, there will be no Israel tomorrow.


7 posted on 07/05/2014 12:08:24 PM PDT by Bluestocking
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To: SeekAndFind

Give Bibi a bunch of MOAB’s and call it a day.


8 posted on 07/05/2014 12:14:36 PM PDT by Rappini (Veritas vos Liberabit)
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