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Sderot - At least 10,000 people have taken part in a solidarity mission to the rocket-battered Israeli town of Sderot near the Gaza border. Most of the visitors did their shopping in the town in the western Negev in an attempt to boost its economy. In recent weeks Sderot residents have demonstrated in Tel Aviv and the capital Jerusalem demanding that the government take steps to prevent the almost daily barrage of rockets fired from the Gaza Strip by Palestinian militants. At least 4,000 rockets have been fired at Sderot in the past seven years, killing nine people. Around 25,000...

Qassam hits Sderot; 11 people hurt Rocket fired by Palestinian gunmen in Gaza lands near house in town; Magen David Adom paramedics treat 10 people for shock, one woman sustains mild injuries. Popular Resistance Committees, al-Quds Brigades claim responsibility for attack Shmulik Hadad At least 10 people suffered shock after a Qassam rocket hit Sderot Monday evening. One woman sustained mild injuries while attempting to take cover. The rocket landed in a local yard, causing some damage to a nearby building. The Popular Resistance Committees and Islamic Jihad's military wing, the al-Quds Brigades, claimed responsibility for the Qassam fire. Yard...

14:46 PM 12 Adar 5768, February 18, '08 Republican Congressman: Time To Stand Up for Sderot (IsraelNN.com) New Jersey Republican Scott Garrett, in an opinion article in the left-wing Forward newspaper in New York, wrote that "it is time to stand up for the people of Sderot." He asserted, "Enough is enough. It's time for the global community to stand up to Palestinian extremists and fight to protect the innocent Israelis in harm’s way." The Congressman noted that an average of 12 rockets and mortar shells a day have been fired on the western Negev since January. Last week, he...

Two brothers, an eight-year-old boy and a youth aged 19, were seriously wounded as a rocket fired from the Gaza Strip struck Sderot on Saturday night, police and medical officials said. The boy was wounded in both his legs before being evacuated to Barzilai Hospital in Ashkelon with his brother. Two other people, including their mother, were lightly wounded in the strike. Both boys were conscious upon arrival to the hospital. Five rockets were fired in the barrage - three of which landed inside of the city. One of the rockets landed in a neighborhood at a time when a...

Hamas ’spent months cutting through Gaza wall in secret operation …As tens of thousands of Palestinians clambered back and forth between the … were not “starving” as they mostly bought cell phones, TVs, and cigarettes… http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article3238615.ece

Un-credible BBC's source is a (terrorists') Hamas blogger   The outrageous BBC excited adhering to a Hamas-nick blogger and pondering responsible Israel's foreign ministry   Though the BBC's Arabist reporting is old news, once in a while they have to hear that ordinary people don't buy their "objective" journalism.   January 23, 2008 [11:30 AM GMT] the anchor ["world updates"] first interviews in an exciting (almost childish like)  tone a Rafah blogger (wow! What a source) that "whines" about "Palestinians" that -- supposedly -- are rushing out to buy "food", and that they are just trying to break the "siege" as...

ISRAEL VS ARAB - THE WAR OF THE HUMANITARIAN VS THE UN-HUMANITARIAN     January 22, 2008   No one has been talking in the mainstream media about the daily "Palestinian" barrage of missiles aimed specifically at Israeli kids, the southern Israel under siege of "Palestinian" occupation, the trembling fear of Israeli women for their children's safety in Sderot ( Fear and trauma as rockets impact Israeli town), but everyone is up in arms if Israel acts.   No one has been talking in mainstream media as Israel has been successfully eliminating terrorists [with unimaginable efforts in carrying it out]...

As Hamas Cuts Gaza Electricity, Sderot Israel Bleeds By Noam Bedein Israel News Agency Jerusalem, Israel ----- January 22, 2008 ....... Over 250,000 Israelis now live under the threat of the Hamas Kassam (Qassam) missiles and rockets. The Head of Israel Military Intelligence to the Israel Knesset Parliament Defense and Foreign Affairs Committee, stated: "Since the first day of January until today, January 20th, over 430 Kassam missiles and mortars were launched towards Sderot, the Western Negev and Ashkelon." In 2007, over 2,300 Hamas missiles and mortars were launched towards Israel from Gaza. How many thousands of Kassam missiles will...

Published: 01/17/08, 11:45 PM Sderot: As Rockets Continue to Fall, Protesters Get Arrested by Nissan Ratzlav-Katz (IsraelNN.com) Following a Kassam rocket barrage on their city, launched by the Palestinian Authority in Gaza, residents of Sderot went out into the street in a spontaneous protest demonstration Thursday night. Two people were arrested. In a single barrage on Thursday afternoon, terrorists in Gaza fired six rockets at Jewish In a single barrage on Thursday afternoon, terrorists in Gaza fired six rockets. communities in the western Negev. Three of them landed within the town of Sderot and three others fell in empty fields...

"Palestinian" Occupation - Israel's Children under siege from Muslim "Palestinians" via qassam missiles directed at civilians 11 Qassams fired toward Sderot; woman injured http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3495363,00.html Ynetnews, Israel - Another Qassam hit the city's industrial zone, while the rest landed in open fields. The heavy barrage began at around 8 am, as Sderot's children were ...Israel children suffering rocket-related stress Israel Today http://www.israeltoday.co.il/default.aspx?tabid=178&nid=15048 'There is no end to the rocket fire' Jerusalem Post http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?c=JPArticle&cid=1200475897738&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull Sdeort: Quarter of all pupils stay home Ynetnews http://web.israelinsider.com/Articles/Security/12578.htm Barrage of rockets hits Sderot as kids go to school Israel Insider, Israel By Israel Insider staff January 17,...

Five Qassam rockets were fired from northern Gaza into the western Negev Wednesday morning, just a few hours before US President George W. Bush's expected arrival in Israel. Three rockets landed around Kibbutz Zikim, while the other two hit outside Sderot. No injuries or property damage were reported. Palestinian sources later reported of a loud blast sounding in the northern Strip, the result of an IDF strike in the vicinity. Eyewitnesses said at least one person was killed and four others were injured. A short while later another Qassam fired from northern Gaza landed near a kibbutz in the Sha'ar...

Published: 12/20/07, 12:27 PM Ten Children in Shock After Kassam Slams Near School by Hillel Fendel TEN CHILDREN, and eight others, are suffering from trauma in the Negev city of Sderot after a Kassam rocket slammed down just 40 meters from an elementary school. The attack occured around 11 AM. One pupil reported that when the Color Red early warning system was sounded, his teacher told the class to remain in their seats because the class was reinforced. However, when they heard the crash and realized how close it had hit, some students and teachers began crying. The school's psychological...

Terrorism Targets The Children Of Sderot Israel By Joel Leyden Israel News Agency Jerusalem ----- December 19, 2007 ....... Sderot. A tiny dot on the map. If we think Israel is small, then Sderot is a 100,000 times smaller. In Israel and abroad we hear about Kassam missiles slamming into this remote, dusty desert Negev town, but it means almost nothing to most of us. It just ain't in our comfort zone. And so we rationalize that if you live in this place spelled Sderot, Sterot or Shertod then perhaps you deserve to get whatever comes. After all you can...

Published: 12/12/07, 12:59 PM Sderot Mayor Resigns in Protest Over Kassams by Hillel Fendel (IsraelNN.com) Sderot Mayor Eli Moyal responded to the barrage of rockets on his city Wednesday morning by announcing his resignation in a live prime-time interview on public Voice of Israel radio. "I don't want to be around when a rocket hits a kindergarten and kills 20 children," he said with great emotion. "I have been losing sleep over such a scenario for years." The resignation was spurred on by the security cabinet's decision just beforehand not to carry out a major offensive in Gaza to halt...

Published: 11/13/07, 4:56 PM The Fate of Sderot is the Fate of Jerusalem by Prof. MK Arieh Eldad I really don't know why I'm writing this. Three thousand of Sderot's residents have fled the city in the past year because the Israeli government has failed despicably in the prime obligation of every state towards its citizens: to protect them. Just like the hundreds of thousands of residents of the north who fled their homes during the Lebanese war, most of the people who left Sderot were those who could. The poor stayed. And what can we say to those who...

3,000 Sderot residents have left town JPost.com Staff , THE JERUSALEM POST Nov. 6, 2007 Some 3,000 of the 22,000 Sderot residents fled the beleaguered western Negev town in June, July and August, Yediot Aharonot reported on Tuesday. The figure amounts to an unprecedented 1 in 7 people that escaped the incessant Kassam attacks over the summer when some 1,500 rockets were fired at the town. Sderot officials assessed that the mass summer exodus was due to growing exhaustion of residents and the fact the many left so that their children could start the new school year elsewhere. Sderot Mayor...

At least one woman was suffering from shock after three Kassam rockets were fired at Sderot late Sunday morning, Israel Radio reported. One of the rockets hit a house and another hit an electrical line, causing a complete blackout in the western Negev town. The siren system and 106 emergency hotline were offline following the attack, leaving the town's residents without even the means to prepare in case another rocket salvo would follow later in the day, the town's press representative told The Jerusalem Post. Earlier Sunday, four Palestinians were killed when IAF aircraft struck two Palestinian rocket squads in...

Israel declares Gaza an 'enemy entity' 3 minutes ago JERUSALEM - Israel's Security Cabinet declared the Gaza Strip an "enemy entity" Wednesday, Israeli radio stations reported. ADVERTISEMENT The decision would let Israel cut off vital electricity, water and fuel supplies to the Palestinian territory, which the Islamic militant Hamas group took over in June. The action would be the most severe of the retaliatory measures Israel has taken recently against near-daily rocket fire from Gaza into southern Israel. Israel hopes to force Hamas to stop the projectile attacks because Israeli airstrikes and land incursions against the rocket launchers have not...

Compelling video of today's bombing in Sderot.

Defense minister puts Sderot under emergency status Hanan Greenberg Published: / Israel News The increase in Qassam rocket attacks on Sderot and the neighboring communities prompted Defense Minister Ehud Barak to declare a 'special situation on the home front' in the Gaza vicinity area on Tuesday. The emergency status – which had only just been lifted in early August, was reinstated following the resurgence of heavy rocket fire from Gaza. The current decree has a 48-hour lifespan but Barak has said he intends to bring the matter before the government and ask for its extension. The "special situation" status is...