Posted on 01/16/2008 9:44:02 AM PST by Nachum
(IsraelNN.com) The enemy in Gaza kept firing anti-civilian terror rockets at Sderot and the Gaza perimeter late Tuesday evening, bringing the reported total of such rocket strikes to 25 Tuesday. The enemy fired another 25 mortar rounds at Israel as well.
The Gazan terrorists fired seven rockets from northern Gaza at the western Negev late Tuesday night. All four exploded harmlessly in open fields in the Sdot Negev Regional Council. No injuries or damage were reported. A 19-year-old man was hit by flying shrapnel in Sderot earlier in a "Kassam" rocket attack. The rocket, which exploded in the center of town, followed an attack less than an hour earlier that knocked out power in several areas around Sderot after a Kassam hit a power line. Two rockets fired earlier in the evening landed in open fields in the western Negev.
Seven year old girl injured Earlier Tuesday afternoon, Palestinian Authority terrorists in northern Gaza fired a barrage of seven Kassam rockets at Jewish towns in the western Negev, injuring four people and sending several others into shock.
A woman and a seven-year-old girl were both hit by flying shrapnel when rockets hit two houses in the same neighborhood in Sderot. Three other people were lightly wounded, according to the IDF. Two were hit by shrapnel in the same attack and a number of others were treated for shock .
The wounded were evacuated to Barzilai Hospital in Ashkelon – a city in which a neighborhood was hit by a Kassam rocket for the first time earlier in the day. A number of strategic installations are located in the southern coastal city. Until this week, only the slightly weaker Kassams had reached Ashkelon.
One of the rockets in the afternoon barrage also hit a chicken processing plant, the same factory where Sderot resident Yaakov Yakobov was killed in a November 2006 Kassam attack.
Earlier in the day, 20-year-old Carlos Chavez, an Ecuadorian volunteer, was murdered by terrorist sniper fire as he worked in the potato fields at Kibbutz Ein HaShlosha, located near the security fence with Gaza.
Approximately 25 mortar shells and 25 Kassam rockets were fired at Sderot and nearby communities since Tuesday morning, most damaging nothing and hurting no one. The Hamas terrorist organization’s Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades gang claimed responsibility for the attacks.
The Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades is one of three Hamas gangs who together kidnapped IDF Cpl. Gilad Shalit in a cross-border raid near the Kerem Shalom crossing in June 2006. Shalit’s condition and whereabouts are still unknown.
IDF Retaliates
The IDF carried out two air strikes against mortar shell launching gangs, in addition to an air strike against a group of armed terrorists traveling in a vehicle. In each strike, IDF soldiers identified hitting targets. Despite terrorists firing mortar shells and anti-tank missiles at IDF forces, no injuries or damage were reported by the troops.
More than 15 terrorists were hit during the operations, described by an IDF spokesman as an operation carried out "to distance terrorist organizations from the security fence and in order to prevent Kassam rocket and mortar shell launchings into Israel."
Israel Air Force pilots carried out an additional air strike on a group of terrorists later in the day after they fired Kassam rockets at Israel. One terrorist was killed and two were wounded in the strike.
A lead story on Yahoo news is about a young child killed by Israeli air strikes. This is not mentioned here. On the other hand, only Palistinian casualties are mentioned on the Yahoo post. They included an obligatory picture of the mourning family members.
According to Yahoo, we are to hold the Israeli military complicit when they make a mistake while aiming at specific rocket launching sites, but we are to give the Palis a [ass when they indiscriminately send rockets into civilian areas.
I believe I read recently, somewhere, that over the past several years Muslim rockets have been fired randomly into Israel at an average rate of one per every three hours. This ongoing assault has been largely ignored by the MSM, while every unintended killing of a Palestinian/Arab non-combatant by Israeli forces has been duly noted in press reports, as well it should be, but a bit of balanced reporting might be a good thing.
Easier said than done.
;->
Who knew they would respond so soon?
I think that Israel should be allowed to return all rockets to Gaza, and let them hit where they may. That would be what is fair.
Reach out and bomb someone.
>>A lead story on Yahoo news is about a young child killed by Israeli air strikes. This is not mentioned here. On the other hand, only Palistinian casualties are mentioned on the Yahoo post. They included an obligatory picture of the mourning family members.<<
Fox did a breaking news alert yesterday for the Israeli rocket into Gaza. Oddly, I’ve been watching Fox all day and yet there has been no mention of rockets from Gaza into Israel...
Very odd.
These tit-for-tat attacks and reprisals have gone on far too long. What outrage would it take to provoke Israel to declare total war on all of the Palestinian splinter terror and political groups?
a. The US government will not punish them for it
b. There is an extreme threat
c. Enough of the Israeli public is pissed off and the politicians need to prove they are doing something
Bush’s fault. And that’s a quote!
At this point, none, zero, nada.
Hey Olmert you stupid, what are you going to do as a result of this? Give the Palis more land? More aid? More electricity?
You dumb ass.
P.O.S. lawyer Olmert is and an appeasing one at that.
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(IsraelNN.com) While dozens of Kassam rockets rained down on Sderot and other western Negev communities Wednesday morning, the state prosecution told the Supreme Court it does not want to reinforce buildings in the besieged city.
State Prosecution attorney Dina Silber said fortification of Sderot homes would "constitute a significant precedent affecting homes in numerous other parts of the country, which are or soon will be subject to rocket fire."
"The state cannot afford to work under the false impression that this policy would apply only to the Sderot area," Silber argued. Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said last month that some NIS 50 million would be allocated in January 2008 to "enhance the resilience of the residents of communities bordering on the Gaza Strip." At the time, Olmert said the money would be used to fortify houses and public buildings, according to Haaretz.
The state prosecution recommended instead that residents of the western Negev build up their stamina in the face of the attacks. "Their endurance, and not reinforcement of houses, is the main feature of the issue at hand," she said. "Reinforcement is only one element in the protection of the Home Front against rocket fire."
The government is fighting a petition by 30 Sderot residents who are demanding the court to order it to fortify 800 homes in the city against the constant rocket attacks.
This has to be about the most absurd statement ever made by an Israeli government official!
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