UPDATE: At least 60 rockets
With Barack Obama pressuring Israel to make devastating concessions to the “Palestinians,” this is the other side of Obama’s appeal: if you don’t give the “Palestinians” a state on our terms, there will be more jihad. If you don’t allow the establishment of a contiguous “Palestine” and live with a truncated and diminished Israel, there will be more rockets. The immense fallacy of this line of reasoning is that there will be more rockets and more jihad anyway, no matter what.
“Barrage of at least 30 rockets fired from Gaza into southern Israel,” by Yaakov Lappin for the Jerusalem Post, March 12:
Israeli communities near southern and northern Gaza have come under heavy rocket attack on Wednesday evening. The IDF said at least 30 rockets had been fired in the largest attack since 2012’s Operation Pillar of Defense.
The IDF said eight rockets hit urban, civilian areas. One rocket landed in Sderot, according to police spokesperson Micky Rosenfeld, although there were no immediate reports of casualties.
Israel Radio reported that up to 55 rockets had been fired into Israel in the deluge of projectiles.
Southern residents have reported several rocket alerts going off consecutively.
The Iron Dome rocket defense system shot down three of the rockets, according to the IDF Spokesperson’s Office.
The IDF fired artillery rounds at two terror infrastructure targets in response.
Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for Wednesday’s attack, according to reports by Palestinian media.
On Tuesday, the Israel Air Force struck an Islamic Jihad cell in southern Gaza, minutes after identifying it as being behind a mortar attack on an IDF unit on the Gaza-Israel border.
According to military sources, the terrorists fired a mortar shell at soldiers who were conducting routine security measures near the frontier.
Islamic Jihad said the Israeli strike killed three of its operatives. The IDF confirmed the aircraft’s hit on the terrorist cell, and said that the aircraft had then returned safely to its base. The army added that it would not tolerate any attack on military forces operating along the border.
Islamic Jihad has been behind a trickle of attacks in recent days that have tested the cease-fire in place between Palestinian terrorist groups in Gaza and Israel.
Earlier this month, the IAF struck an Islamic Jihad rocket-launching cell about to fire rockets at southern Israel from northern Gaza, killing a member of the terror organization.
Last week, the Israel Navy intercepted an Iranian arms ship destined for Gaza, which included 40 Syrian made M302 rockets that had a range of between 90 to 160 kilometers, 80 mortar shells, and nearly half a million rounds of ammunition. Islamic Jihad was one of the intended recipients of the arms shipment, according to Israeli assessments.
Champ says
Another news report states 60 rockets …
“Gaza Terrorists Shower at Least 60 Rockets on Southern Israel”
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/178419#.UyCbPj9dXAl
Walter Sieruk says
The jihadists of Gaza have in the past , do now and will in the future keep on sending murderous rocket attacks into Israel. Be they the jihadists of Hamas in Gaza or jihadists of Hezbollah in Lebanon sending down rockets into Israel form the North. They all will keep going with the deadly actions. They all engage in the heinous violence and killing of the militant jihadism of Islam. As taught in the Quran. As in Sura 9:111,112. Moreover an other example of this Sura 47:4 which teaches “Whenever you encounter the unbelievers strike off their heads until you make a great slaughter among them…” Just think about it. Rockets can sure made a greater “slaughter among them” then a sword can. That some strange kind of “peaceful religion’ if there ever was one.
mortimer says
The Gaza experiment has been a complete failure. There is no contracting peace with a group vowed to your extermination, regardless of concessions. Something different should be tried. Perhaps they can surround Gaza with balloons or drones that will attract missiles and cause them to explode over Gaza. United States is responsible for funding the terrorists.
dumbledoresarmy says
“United States is responsible for funding the terrorists.”
You forgot about the EU! They’re funding the Poor Palestinian genocidal jewhating mohammedan mobsters, too.
And so is Australia. Every country that donates to the UNRWA is basically helping the Poor Palestinians [TM] wage jihad against the Jews.
And of that money, whatever the Arab Muslim gang bosses don’t divert to their private coffers, mostly gets spent on jihad.
Not one single non-Muslim country should donate even one *cent* to the local mohammedans in Gaza, Judea, Samaria, Jordan, Lebanon, etc.
“Stop the jizya!!”
Charli Main says
I have no doubt that the heroic, holy warriors of Islamic Jihad have placed these rocket batteries in schools, hospitals and orphanages, hoping that an Israeli counter attack will kill large numbers of women and children.
Then all the ranting and raving about the” barbaric ” Israelis can start in the Muslim hugging Western press.
Of course the heroic, valiant warriors of Islamic Jihad couldn´t care less how many Muslim women and children are killed. Allah be praised– the more the merrier.
guy macher says
The mistake was allowing Muslims to stay in Israel after 1967. The next mistake was allowing Muslims to vote. Finally, giving them rights to welfare assures Israel of constant war from within. Abolish welfare, suspend rights to vote, offer one way bus tickets to the Islamic wonderland of their choice.
Charli Main says
Even better, lets included all the Muslims infesting Europe and the USA in your plan !!!!!
Stanton Cordray says
Presumably Hamas will disclaim any responsibility, Islamic Jihad having claimed it. The PR is that Hamas is not in control of other militant groups in Gaza, which, apart from being hard to believe, is pretty pathetic as a diversion. Of course, if the Israelis were to do anything to try to stop the rockets (anything big, I mean) the world would scream bloody murder at once. They’d be in a mood to. They’re tired of their own total silence when it’s Hamas or Islamic Jihad doing the firing.
Mo says
How can any country continue to put up with these acts of war without responding with the overwhelming force we KNOW they possess?!
bikeboy says
Israel is sometimes her own worst enemy by trying to be compassionate, or maybe to not be vilified. But they are anyway, by idiots who know little.