Posted on 01/03/2008 9:16:01 AM PST by Nachum
(IsraelNN.com) The rocket war in and around Gaza is heating up. The Israel Air Force bombed Gaza three times on Thursday afternoon in retaliation for a Katyusha rocket that landed further north than any rocket ever fired from Gaza. Shortly afterwards, a Kassam rocket attack from Gaza injured a Sderot woman hanging laundry.
An Iranian-supplied Katyusha rocket fired around 11 AM on Thursday by Islamic Jihad terrorists in Gaza towards Ashkelon landed further north than ever before - 16.5 kilometers (10 miles) from Gaza. No one was hurt in the attack, though the missile landed only some 50 meters (55 yards) from a residential neighborhood.
The IDF retaliated for the attack nearly four hours later by air-bombing several terrorist targets in Gaza City, including the home of an Islamic Jihad terrorist who was killed in a similar attack last week. The terrorist, Muhammad Dahduh, had been considered the mastermind of Kassam rocket production in Gaza. His now-destroyed home was empty at the time of today's attack, though nine passersby were reported injured by the bomb.
Eight Palestinian terrorists were killed in clashes with Israeli forces throughout the day; the last one was in the midst of trying to fire anti-rocket rockets when he was killed. Seven other Kassam rockets and mortar shells were fired from Gaza this morning; no one was hurt.
Miracle in Sderot Shortly afterwards, a round of between two and five Kassam rockets was fired from Gaza, with one of them landing in the yard of a residential home in Sderot. A woman who had been hanging laundry there ran for cover when she heard the Color Red early warning alarm, and the rocket fell just several feet from the laundry lines. The woman, and several other Sderot residents, were evacuated to a hospital and were treated for shock.
The Katyusha fired at Ashkelon, a Grad model 122 millimeters (nearly 5 inches) in diameter, was the fifth such rocket fired in recent years towards Ashkelon.
PA Blames Israel The Palestinian Authority retaliated for Israel's retaliation not only with Kassams, but also on the international media stage. Nabil Abu Rudeineh, a spokesman for PA chairman Mahmoud Abbas, asserted that Israel's counter-terrorism operations were “a bloody Israeli message in which Israel shirks itself [sic] of any commitment.” Rudeineh also accused Israel of “killing the spirit of the Annapolis conference.”
I am a bit out of touch...but what is the status of the two missing soldiers that Israel went to battle with Hamas over last year? Why they didn’t finish the job still confuses me.
There is one they are negotiating for, his name is Shalit. Last I heard, they were talking about a trade of 400 murderers in Israeli prison for him.
With the Israelis automatically letting out a few thousand terrorists
each month, how could they ever reach 400 in prison, for that trade?
Israel gave them exactly what they wanted...and got out of Gaza.
Now Israel should begin laying the groundwork for the inevitable next phase.
They should notify every major country that they’ve begun assembling rocket launchers all along southern Israel and the next rocket that is fired will trigger a rocket barrage into Gaza like the world hasn’t seen since the Russian front in the 40’s.
Set it up such that all (civilized) humans are pulled out of the area and thus will have no control once the terrorists trigger the system and the system is set up to track, target and destroy terrorist rocket launch sites in defense only.
Warn civilians that if a monster is launching rockets from your rooftop, you’re going to be attending your own funeral next morning.
It’s now out of our control.
If anyone is left to bury you that is.
We are talking about people like Barghouti. The worst of the worst.
The world can have as much terrorism as it wants to pay for. Let's hope the next President bails out on the Palestinian State nonsense.
Yeah. Things were much cooler when Israel just left the rag-heads alone while they fired rockets at residential neighborhoods.
Yeah. Things were much cooler when Israel just left the rag-heads alone while they fired rockets at residential neighborhoods.
Oh, my. Three times? They must be getting tough.
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English translation: How dare you do unto us what we've been able to get away with doing to you for decades!!! This is not an acceptable situation and until you learn to take whatever we dish out without complaining, much less retaliating, we will stop the peace process and really get mad!!
The figure is actually $555 million of our taxpayer dollars is pledged to support terrorism.... get your facts / statistics straight :o)
The world can have as much terrorism as it wants to pay for. Let's hope the next President bails out on the Palestinian State nonsense.
I'm afraid the way things look now, it will only escalate until the anti-christ reveals himself...
Gaza should be carpet bombed until the rubble is reduced to sand.
>>The terrorist, Muhammad Dahduh, had been considered the mastermind of Kassam rocket production in Gaza.<<
That’s new information to me - i didn’t realize the rockets were actually being built in Gaza - I guess that explains why they are using rockets, not missiles.
Actually I knew it was $555 billion, but who cares, if it’s that or $500 billion. I meant to put a ‘+’ after the $500 billion. So, after knocking me for failure to follow the facts, you say ‘until the anti-christ reveals himself’. Were you being funny or serious with that?
Actually, as attested to by the smiley face afterwards, the $555 was the joke... the second comment was the serious one.
Fly Barghouti to his home and drop him off at about 20000 feet..
Fly Barghouti to his home and drop him off at about 20000 feet..
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