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Rocket fired from Egypt hits Israeli city of Eilat [Bibi:Sinai now a terror zone]
BBC ^ | 5 April 2012 Last updated at 02:04 ET | BBC

Posted on 04/05/2012 5:29:00 AM PDT by DCBryan1

A Grad rocket has landed in the southern Israeli city of Eilat, but has caused no damage or injuries, Israeli security officials said.

District police chief Ron Gertner told Israeli radio the rocket had been fired from Egypt's Sinai peninsula.

He said it struck a construction site close to a residential area shortly after midnight (21:00 GMT).

The blast took place as thousands congregated in the resort town for the Jewish holiday of Passover.

Rocket attacks from Egyptian soil are uncommon. Attacks on Eilat and the nearby Jordanian town of Aqaba in 2010 killed one person and injured another four.

Sinai unrest

Eilat Mayor Meir Yitzhak-Halevy told the Jerusalem Post that the city would function as normal despite the attack.

A wave of unrest has hit the restive Sinai peninsula recently.

Israel says militants have become active in the region since former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak was overthrown in February 2011.

In August 2011, an armed group crossed the border into Israel from the Sinai peninsula and killed eight Israelis.

Israel blamed Palestinian militants but five Egyptian policemen were killed as Israeli forces pursued the gunmen, sparking a diplomatic row between the two countries.

(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Foreign Affairs; Israel; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: egypt; egyptmb; eilat; israel; muslimbrotherhood; netanyahu; sinai; sinaiterrorzone
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1 posted on 04/05/2012 5:29:10 AM PDT by DCBryan1
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To: DCBryan1

Prayers for Israel.


2 posted on 04/05/2012 5:32:20 AM PDT by bgill
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To: DCBryan1

Arab Spring.

Israeli Winter.


3 posted on 04/05/2012 5:32:45 AM PDT by Westbrook (Children do not divide your love, they multiply it.)
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“Rocket attacks from Egyptian soil are uncommon”

Not for long,

Bambi is rolling out the red carpet for the new Terrorist Leaders of Egypt this week.


4 posted on 04/05/2012 5:33:08 AM PDT by DAC21
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The day after the rag bastards from Egypt are hosted by the rag bastard occupying the WhiteHut.

Quite a coinkydink

5 posted on 04/05/2012 5:33:17 AM PDT by tomkat
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To: DCBryan1

It must have been a THRILL for the Moslem Brotherhood
to launch from 1600 Penn. Ave.
with their undocumented Moslem partner in charge.


6 posted on 04/05/2012 5:35:43 AM PDT by Diogenesis ("Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. " Pres. Ronald Reagan)
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To: DCBryan1

How suprising, just days after the Muslim Brotherhood was in the White House too ...


7 posted on 04/05/2012 5:35:50 AM PDT by Scythian
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To: DCBryan1
Grad Battlefield 122mm Rocket Artillery

Imagine ATF giving Mexican cartel's MLRS systems and rockets raining down on El Paso or San Diego from Mexico!

US equivalent of BM-21 Rocket system, the M270 MLRS system.

8 posted on 04/05/2012 5:38:53 AM PDT by DCBryan1 (Tagline removed at the request of someone who doesn't "get" Monty Python or Shakespeare.)
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Stupid. Egypt is in disarray & in no position to take on Israel
9 posted on 04/05/2012 5:41:11 AM PDT by nuconvert ( Khomeini promised change too // Hail, Chairman O)
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To: DCBryan1

The Negev is sparsely populated with Jews with an unsustainable high cost of defense and so will be abandoned like Gaza, Judea and Samaria in order to make a ‘contiguous’ Palestinian state. Or at least that’s the plan...


10 posted on 04/05/2012 5:46:24 AM PDT by jjotto ("Ya could look it up!")
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To: tomkat
The day after...

Oh, to be a fly on the wall! The MB must of gotten the green light.

11 posted on 04/05/2012 5:53:11 AM PDT by C210N (Mitt "Severe Etch-a-Sketch" mcRominate-me)
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it’s predictable. Another Holy Day for the people of Israel, another bombing. Prayers for Israel.


12 posted on 04/05/2012 5:56:28 AM PDT by coloradomomba (Lord God...please use me.)
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To: DCBryan1
Obama's Arab rping

Obama has doen more damage to US standing around the world and to our allies than any enemy since Hitler and Tojo. Not even the Soviets hurt us and our allies so much.

THE MAN WHO DESPISES AMERICA

AMERICA AT THE CROSSROADS OF HISTORY

13 posted on 04/05/2012 6:00:50 AM PDT by Jeff Head (Freedom is not free, never has been, never will be (www.dragonsfuryseries.com))
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To: Westbrook

Hope-n-change.

It’s working out perfectly for Barry the Mohammedan and his muslime brotherhood butt-buddies.


14 posted on 04/05/2012 6:02:12 AM PDT by ArrogantBustard (Western Civilization is Aborting, Buggering, and Contracepting itself out of existence.)
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To: DCBryan1

We still have a Battalion size element of US soldiers in the Sinai.

I was there in 2006 with the Multinational Force, and Observers.

There is a small outpost of US soldiers right next to Eilat on the Egyptian side of the border.


15 posted on 04/05/2012 6:55:46 AM PDT by And2TheRepublic (People like freedom of speech, but only when it's sweet to their ears.)
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was it yesterday or the day before Obama hosted al quaida 2.0 the muslim brotherhood in OUR WHITE HOUSE?!?!?!?


16 posted on 04/05/2012 7:09:38 AM PDT by Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!
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To: bgill

Obama Welcomes Brotherhood Run For Egyptian Presidency
http://www.radicalislam.org/analysis/obama-welcomes-brotherhood-run-egyptian-presidency

Aiding and abetting the enemy?IMPEACHMENT FOR OBAMA HELLO HELLO, class class, anyone? Oh no wait... if we called for the impeachment of a sitting US POTUS for promoting,funding,aiding and abetting terrorists that leads to WW3 we are all racists my bad wtf was I thinking?!?!?!?!?


17 posted on 04/05/2012 7:19:01 AM PDT by Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!
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To: DCBryan1

It would be interesting to know if there are Egyptian or Libyan markings on it. Libya had a couple hundred of these.


19 posted on 04/05/2012 7:26:09 AM PDT by Jack of all Trades (Hold your face to the light, even though for the moment you do not see.)
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To: DCBryan1

ping for later


20 posted on 04/05/2012 7:27:33 AM PDT by ducttape45
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