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Hamas targets Israeli civilians, fires 45 rockets into Israel

Jun 20, 2018 6:22 am By Robert Spencer

Time for the UN Human Rights Council to issue another condemnation of Israel.

“45 rockets launched from Gaza amid night of intense IDF, Hamas fire,” Times of Israel, June 20, 2018:

Rocket sirens blared in the south throughout the early morning hours Wednesday, as barrages totaling some 45 rockets and mortar shells were fired toward Israeli towns, prompting rounds of Israeli airstrikes on Hamas military sites in the Gaza Strip.

At least six rockets fired from the coastal enclave landed inside Israeli communities adjacent to the border, including one that struck just outside a kindergarten, Israeli officials said. Most of the others landed in open fields in southern Israel.

The Israel Defense Forces said fighter jets struck approximately at total of 25 targets in various military bases belonging to the Hamas terror group from the north to the south of the Gaza Strip in response to both the projectile attacks and the numerous incendiary kites and balloons flown by Palestinians into Israel throughout the day on Tuesday.

The Israeli military accused Hamas, the Islamist terror group which rules Gaza, of “targeting Israeli civilians throughout the night with a severe rocket attack and dragging the Gaza Strip and its civilians down a deteriorating path.”

Hamas, meanwhile, blamed Israel for the escalation of violence, saying it had “changed the rules of engagement” by adopting the policy of targeting Hamas positions in response to kite- and balloon-borne arson attacks….

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  1. R Russell says

    Jun 20, 2018 at 6:51 am

    So Hamas didn’t change the rules of engagement by flying incendiary kites to destroy Israeli crops and to kill Israeli wild life?
    No surprise there. The religion of death kills wildlife needlessly.

  2. balam says

    Jun 20, 2018 at 7:23 am

    I feel SAD for the STATE of ISRAEL and its people to have such evil MOHAMMEDAN neighbors. ONE can neither live peacefully with them or beside them.My sincere thoughts and prayers are always with the people of Israel.May God protect them always.

  3. Bob Carrillo says

    Jun 20, 2018 at 8:44 am

    Memo to the Palestinians: BUILD SOMETHING!

    Memo to the UN: Grow a conscience and some character…

    Memo to Israel: The next time the Iranian made rockets are fired at you by those oh-so-mistreated Palestinians & Hamas… LEVEL THE PLACE!.

  4. Bob Carrillo says

    Jun 20, 2018 at 8:46 am

    ……That’s what my Dad, the WWII & Korean combat veteran would say. Me too..

  5. Westman says

    Jun 20, 2018 at 9:45 am

    How often have we seen the war-addicted “fighters” of rebel causes become unable to do anything but war as it becomes their entire life of living for the effects of rushing adrenaline? Hamas “soldiers” are adrenaline junkies who live for war; wars justified for all time and circumstances by the Quran.

    The Quran justifies war upon everyone who opposes or leaves it; making it the foremost creator of adrenaline junkies. I could be wrong, however, it appears to me that the losing adrenaline junkies of ISIS have been forced to join other conflicts or return “home” where they are potenial terrorists and depressed, often suicidal, individuals.

    So far, Hamas has proven itself to be rather incompetent, hiding behind civilians and firing unguided rockets that have little chance of finding a valuable target. The response, however, would raise some adrenaline for another, “fix”.

    It may be that Hamas is being fueled by the adrenaline junkies from other conflicts and Iran’s IRG junkies. If this is happening, Israel will be forced into ever greater responses to that increasing terrorism and into enduring the ever increasing cry for its destruction by indoctrinated armchair liberals.

    It seems the only strategy left for Israel is the targeting of the Hamas terrorist leadership. If the US doesn’t contain the Mullah’s of Iran and the IRG keeps adding fuel to the conflict, Israel may even be forced to “remove” the leadership of Iran – a great benefit to Iran’s Persian citizens.

  6. Rarely says

    Jun 20, 2018 at 10:32 am

    I wonder how many babies Hamas will claim were killed in the air raids.
    Stupid of them to bring a knife to a gun fight.
    The UNHRC will, of course, blame Israel for “over reaction” . It’s their standby criticism of Israel.

    • gravenimage says

      Jun 20, 2018 at 4:54 pm

      Grimly true.

  7. Libertyphobic says

    Jun 20, 2018 at 10:45 am

    Time for UN Human Rights Council to issue another condemnation of Israel. Happy to hear US getting out. Islamic countries do not like UN Human Rights so they made up their own, Cairo Declaration. Still looking for the Tolerance of islam and where are the muslim voices? Be vigilant and keep a keen sword.

    • gravenimage says

      Jun 20, 2018 at 4:54 pm

      +1

  8. Buraq says

    Jun 20, 2018 at 11:12 am

    Has anyone noticed that many of these ‘balloons’ look like inflated condoms? I suppose that explains why Hamas has to put so-o-o-o many of them together to reach Israel – they are the standard size for Hamas militants ….. small !!

    Clowns!

    • gravenimage says

      Jun 20, 2018 at 4:57 pm

      Buraq–no joke–they *are* inflated condoms:

      “Latest jihad terror threat from Gaza: Explosive condoms”

      https://www.jihadwatch.org/2018/06/latest-jihad-terror-threat-from-gaza-explosive-condoms

    • LeftisruiningCanada says

      Jun 20, 2018 at 10:14 pm

      What’s betting all these condoms are being given our for free in Gaza by various UN or otherwise Western taxpayer funded “aid” organizations.

      • gravenimage says

        Jun 20, 2018 at 10:17 pm

        Probably so.

  9. Rarely says

    Jun 20, 2018 at 12:16 pm

    The population of Gaza has DOUBLED since Israel left. No one can say the Gazans have been doing nothing. Lots of future cannon fodder for Hamas.
    They must see that they have better things to do then constantly agitate against Israel. What a waste of life. Sooner or later they must come to realize that it’s their own leadership that’s causing their lives to be so meaningless. Totally naïve wishful thinking on my part.

    • Westman says

      Jun 20, 2018 at 3:08 pm

      One thing always happens when a non-working population is subsidized – a population explosion.

      • KJW says

        Jun 22, 2018 at 1:46 pm

        Fecundism has always been promoted by Islamic leaders and Imams. Palestinians have even bragged that they have more kids than Israelis do just as Muslims in Europe have called European men impotent. I reminded a Muslim youth that Muhamnad says in the Qur’an verse 108:3…

        Yusuf Ali, Pickthall, and Muhammad Sarwar, translate it as referring to Muhammad saying it is the enemy who will be cut off (from posterity) as some man insulted Muhamnad as being impotent/sterile since he was lacking children; with so many wives there ought to have been more children with all that sex. The word l-kawthara relates to this. Qur’an verse 108:1 meaning abundance.

        108:3
        Pickthall: Lo! It is thy insulter (and not thou) who will be cut off from posterity.”

        Muhammad Sarwar says: “Whoever hates you will remain childless.”

        The others use “the one cut off” (the enemy).

        An Egyptian ex-Muslim and another Egyptian mentioned this-there must be something in the Hadith or Sira referring to this also. It’s not insignificant because Muhammad forbade his wives not to remarry after his death. Aisha was only about 18 when he died, so that’s cruel as to not let her have kids, no less have love and companionship. A reason given is that if the wives had a bunch of children it would further make Muhammad look impotent. Otherwise it would be extreme possessiveness.

        It’s yet another one of those, what I call Voila Allah!, verses that Allah conveniently sent down that applied to Muhammad and a current issue.

        I suppose it’s OK to insult the kuffar though. Gaza is a sardine can with many poor who have on average 5 kids who should be using the condoms for sex not destruction. There are Gazan mothers who are quite happy about their sons being martyrs-they can just have more and the family gets a ticket to Paradise too as martyrdom is tops on the list of good deeds.

        Of course the anti-Israel people and UN never mention how Hamas puts little kids on TV saying most hateful things about the Jews such as to kill all Jews; these kids have gone as young as 3 years old. More should be said about this-I’ve shown some of these videos to anti-Israel supporters and they are so disturbing you can practically see the cognitive dissonance exploding from their heads. Thus is how rotten to the core Hamas is and they justify doing this. But for westerners not to point out this psychological and hateful abuse of their kids is unconscionable.

    • gravenimage says

      Jun 20, 2018 at 5:02 pm

      Grimly true.

    • LeftisruiningCanada says

      Jun 20, 2018 at 10:15 pm

      Clearly not using the condoms for their intended purpose.

  10. Ibrahim itace muhammed says

    Jun 20, 2018 at 4:35 pm

    Mr Spencer, Hamas has legitimate right to eject fascist evil Zionists from illegal occupation of their land by whatever means, including firing rockets. why fascist evil Zionist state of Israel should not comply with numerous UN resolutions requiring it to withdraw from Palestinian territory ?As such It cannot complain on such rockets attacks as part of Palestinian right to eject illegal occupation under international law of ejectment. He who comes to Equity must come with clean hands

    • gravenimage says

      Jun 20, 2018 at 4:48 pm

      Of course, Israel *is not* occupying Gaza. They left in 2005–vainly hoping for peace from Muslims.

      Since Israel is not occupying Gaza, what are Hamas’s goals? They have their goal in their own charter–the utter destruction of Israel. It is the same with Fatah.

      This is also what Ibrahim itace muhammed wants.

      He has said, in fact, that he looks forward to personally taking part in the genocide of the Jews. *Ugh*.

    • Rarely says

      Jun 20, 2018 at 6:45 pm

      I don’t hear Israel complaining over these raids. They just retaliate up the Gazans’ backsides. Then the Gazans complain. They’re too stupid to understand “cause and effect”.

      Get it Ibrahim? Israel is going to retaliate every time.

      • Ibrahim itace muhammed says

        Jun 20, 2018 at 6:54 pm

        Rarely, at the end fascist evil Zionist state of Israel has to withdraw from Palestinian territory. Idiots!!

        • gravenimage says

          Jun 20, 2018 at 9:54 pm

          Of course, Israel is not occupying Gaza. Why does Ibrahim itace muhammed keep lying?

        • LeftisruiningCanada says

          Jun 20, 2018 at 10:18 pm

          There isn’t any “Palestinian” territory, or hadn’t you noticed?

          All there is, is land which Israel has decided to let them use for a bit longer.

          Don’t forget that.

      • LeftisruiningCanada says

        Jun 20, 2018 at 10:21 pm

        What a terrible death that would be.

        I’m sure Vogon poetry would be less tortuous.

      • Ibrahim itace muhammed says

        Jun 21, 2018 at 1:00 am

        Jay B, it is mithraist christians who look like wild animals producing horrible bad smells because they associate with one-eyed satan god (Holy Spirit) who has anus sex with them, that is why mithraist christian priests have anus and vaginal sex with kids under their care.

      • LeftisruiningCanada says

        Jun 21, 2018 at 8:15 pm

        Admit it Ibrahim, you are a software developer (maybe cheap iphone apps or something), and you have written a little program which you use to construct your posts.

        You probably gave it a dictionary to draw from, along with some longer partial sentences which can be joined together any which way.

        The alternative to this scenario (that you actually type these things out because it’s what genuinely comes to your mind when you use it to thunk) is both sad and worrying.

  11. Maky Lemur says

    Jun 21, 2018 at 10:01 am

    If I had the authority I would simply say to the gazans: ” I hope that you know how to swim” and then clean them out.

    • Ibrahim itace muhammed says

      Jun 21, 2018 at 6:05 pm

      maky Lemur, you mean to erase Palestinians like what mithraist white christians did to the original inhabitants of Americas pursuant to evil Bible and obnoxious Talmud? Satan god (Holy Spirit) is wicked and cruel.

      • gravenimage says

        Jun 22, 2018 at 1:55 am

        More projection from Ibrahim itace muhammed.

  12. C. Merson says

    Jun 21, 2018 at 4:33 pm

    There has to be a straw that breaks the camels back (pardon the double entendre). At that point Israel should give the populous 96 hours to vacate with safe passage to Egypt or Jordan and just level Gaza. MOAB’s, incendiaries and anything else they can use. Drop your leaflets wait the four days (if you want to get Biblical about it you can give them ten days (one for each plague on Egypt, which these interlopers have been)), then take out their first, second, third, fourth and fifth born.

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