Palestinian Rockets Hit Israel, Breaking Hamas Truce

Palestinian Arabs doing what they do best. From Palestinian Rockets Hit Israel, Breaking Hamas Truce:

Three Kassam rockets fired from Gaza on Tuesday struck the Israeli town of Sderot and its environs, constituting the first serious breach of a truce between Israel and Hamas, the Islamic group that controls Gaza. Mark Regev, a spokesman for Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, said the rocket fire from Gaza had been "a grave violation of the calm" that came into effect last Thursday. Islamic Jihad, a small extremist group, claimed responsibility for the attack. Previous cease-fire understandings in Gaza have fallen apart over the inability of Palestinian leaders to contain the smaller groups.

The Development of Hamas Rocket Capabilities

From The Development of Hamas Rocket Capabilities:

Israeli intelligence officials believe Hamas currently has, in Gaza, several hundred factory-made BM-21 rockets, each with a range of 20 km. They also have 6-km.-range B-12 rockets. The locally-made Kassam II has about the same range, but the B-12 is more reliable.

In 2002, Hamas began firing Kassam I rockets at Jewish settlements in Gaza and into southern Israel. By 2003, there was the Kassam II, with a range of 8 km. The Kassam III has a range of 10 km.

By June 2004, about 200 Kassams had been fired into southern Israel. By the end of 2005, over 400 Kassams had been fired at Israeli targets. In the next six months, another 600 rockets were fired. About a thousand Kassams were fired into Israel during 2006. This doubled, to two thousand in 2007, and during the first four months of 2008, another 2,000 were fired.

For every 30-40 Kassams fired, an Israeli is killed or wounded. Hamas has hopes that someday soon they will attack in conjunction with Hizbullah firing rockets into northern Israel, and Iran firing rockets into Tel Aviv.

Palestinian Rocket Kills Israeli Woman

Let's see what the islamapologists come up with now to defend palestinian murderers killing a 70 year old woman. From Palestinian Rocket Kills Israeli Woman:

Shuli Katz, 70, of Kibbutz Gvaram, was killed Monday by a Palestinian Kassam rocket while she was visiting Moshav Yesha, 15 km. east of Gaza near the Negev town of Ofakim.

In a related item, Israel Asks UN Security Council to Condemn Palestinian Rocket Attacks:

Israel's UN mission submitted a complaint Monday to the Security Council over Kassam attacks from Gaza, hours after Shuli Katz was killed by a Palestinian rocket. Israel asked the UN to condemn Palestinian terror as well as those countries providing assistance to terror organizations. It is the second such complaint filed by Israel in as many days.

Palestinian Rockets Hit Sderot, Kibbutz

Palestinians doing what they do best. Palestinians in Gaza fired Kassam rockets at Israel on Sunday. One rocket exploded in the yard of a home in Sderot, causing damage. Another exploded in Kibbutz Zikim, south of Ashkelon.

Sderot: 2 wounded in Qassam barrage

Muslims are relentless killers, mostly because Islam, at its core, is lethally militaristic and institutionalizes homicide. Yet again, two Jews were lightly wounded and nine others suffered from shock after Muslim terror groups in northern Gaza launched a barrage of eight Qassam rockets towards Israel late Wednesday evening. Two of the rockets landed in the town of Sderot, causing structural damage near the town's commercial center. Security forces have yet to confirm where the remaining rockets crashed. The military wings of the Islamic Jihad and the Popular Resistance Committee's - the al-Quds Brigades and the Salah a-Din Brigades - claimed responsibility for the Qassam barrages.

Airstrike Targets Palestinian Rocket Barbarians

Good news. An Israel air force aircraft on Tuesday attacked a Palestinian rocket squad in the northern Gaza Strip, wounding four of its henchmen. Earlier in the day, palestinian murderers fired three rockets into Israel. May the murderous Muslim barbarians never recover from their wounds.

Israeli Child Injured in Palestinian Rocket Attack

Palestinian Arabs doing what they do best. From Israeli Child Injured in Palestinian Rocket Attack:

Yossi Haimov, 10, sustained serious injuries on Monday when a Kassam rocket fired by Palestinians in Gaza landed near a school in Sderot. His sister, Maria, 8, said, "We heard the Red Alert system, quickly ran and hid, there was a small 'boom,' and then when we came out there was once again a strong explosion. We hid near the wall and then the shrapnel hit Yossi in the shoulder and his entire shoulder was filled with blood."

Muslim Mortars Hit Army Base near Gaza

Ynet reports that several mortar shells were fired from Muslim terrorists at an IDF base near Kibbutz Nahal Oz Tuesday, hitting one of the buildings. Another four mortars landed near Israeli communities. IDF forces operating in the northern Gaza Strip in the Sajaiya area Tuesday detained ten suspected Muslim terrorists and transferred them to Israel.

Israeli Boy, Brother Mutilated by Muslim Rockets

Where is the international outrage and condemnation? Where are the emergency sessions at the United Nations? From Israeli Boy, Brother Mutilated by Muslim Rockets:

An 8-year-old boy and his older brother were mutilated Saturday when a rocket fired by palestinians from Gaza slammed into the Israeli town of Sderot. The younger boy's legs were at least partially severed by the explosion, Israel's Army Radio reported. His 19-year-old brother was also badly hurt.

Doctors at Barzilai Medical Center in Ashkelon were forced Sunday to amputate part of the left leg of Osher Tuito, 8, who was seriously injured in a rocket attack in Sderot on Saturday. "We are trying to keep the second leg, but it's also in bad condition," said Dr. Emil Chai, the hospital's deputy director-general. "Apart from that, he has a hole in his chest and his lungs are injured."

Osher, who dreamed of becoming a soccer player, does not know yet that he has lost one of his legs. He remains under total sedation so he doesn't suffer from severe pain.

Staffers at Barzilai Medical Center were themselves traumatized by Osher's suffering, as he was conscious upon arrival at the trauma room and repeatedly screamed "Save me!"

Who is John Dugard?

John Dugard is a UN special rapporteur on the human rights situation in the Palestinian territories. Based on his credentials, he is educated in international law, and is qualified to lecture, among other things, in International Criminal Law and Public International Law capita selecta. He is also a blatant arabist.

John Dugard claims that Israel's righteous targeting of a Hamas government office was a "war crime" and those responsible should be punished, a United Nations official said Saturday.

John Dugard also slammed the killing of palestinians in other attacks and the closing of border crossings.

John Dugard ignores the fact that Muslim Hamas terrorists in Gaza have fired 130 rockets (since 15-1-08) targeting civilians in Sderot and other Israeli towns and communities during the last few days.

John Dugard ignores the fact that Muslim terrorist organizations' use of rocket and mortar shell fire between 2000 and 2007, the years of the terrorist campaign initiated by the Palestinians (called the Al-Aqsa intifada), totaled 2,383 identified rocket attacks aimed at unarmed Jewish civilians and more than 2500 mortar shells aimed at unarmed Israeli civilians.

John Dugard ignores the fact that since 2001, rocket fire has been directly responsible for the deaths of ten Israeli civilians , nine of them Sderot residents. In addition, 433 individuals have been wounded, 2 the overwhelming majority of them civilians, and during the past year and a half more than 1,600 instances of stress were reported.

John Dugard ignores the fact that mortar fire has been responsible for the deaths of ten Jewish individuals, eight civilians and two IDF soldiers. Of the 150 wounded, 80 were civilians and 70 soldiers.

John Dugard ignores the fact that continued attacks by Muslims on the Israeli population have an accumulated psychological impact on the population and destroy the sense of security previously had by more than 190,000 people, who now live under the potential threat of daily rocket and mortar shell attacks .

Therefore, we can clearly state that John Dugard's comments are insignificant, and Israel's restrained retaliation targeting Muslim terrorists is completely justified.

Hamas terrorists, the obvious aggressors, are completely responsible for any civilian casualties incurred, especially as they purposely fire rockets at Jews and their families while ensconsed in densely populated civilian areas.

Israel Will Act to End Palestinian Rocket Attacks

It better bring an end to it. Jewish blood is not cheap, Arabists. Like a bully in a playground, you picked on the wrong kid to give a bloody nose. From Israel Will Act to End Palestinian Rocket Attacks:

Defense Minister Ehud Barak said Thursday, "The IDF will continue in its ongoing operation [in Gaza] and deepen it in order to strike at the perpetrators, until the [rocket] firing stops....It won't be easy, it won't happen this weekend, but we will bring an end to Kassam attacks on Sderot." Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said, "We are not looking to fight in Gaza, we do not want to harm its residents...but we will not and we cannot continue to suffer this relentless Kassam rocket fire."

Palestinian Rocket Barrage Wounds Ten in Israel

These are the Muslims that the left embraces. These are Palestinians doing what they do best. From Palestinian Rocket Barrage Wounds Ten in Israel:

At least 10 people were hurt Tuesday when Palestinians in Gaza launched a barrage of Kassam rockets and mortar shells at Israel. The Israel Defense Forces Tuesday counted 50 Kassam rockets and 30 mortar shells fired from Gaza. In addition, a Grad Katyusha rocket was found near a residential area in Ashkelon.

In Sderot, the Red Alert siren was sounded 14 times. Time and again, local residents scrambled for cover. Toward nightfall, a rocket hit a power line and the city's residents remained in the dark until it was fixed.

"The center treating people for shock remained open thanks to a generator," said Dr. Adrianna Katz. "We treated 20 people Tuesday."

Palestinians Fire Nine Rockets at Israel

Palestinians try to prove that they are involuntarily chained to their kassam rocket launchers. From Palestinians Fire Nine Rockets at Israel:

Palestinians in Gaza fired nine Kassam rockets and a number of mortars at Israel Wednesday morning, just a few hours before U.S. President Bush's arrival in Israel.

Palestinian Rocket Smashes into Israeli Home

Palestinians doing what they do best. From Palestinian Rocket Smashes into Israeli Home:

A Kassam rocket crashed into a private residence in Sderot on Wednesday leaving several people in shock. "I arrive at my brother's house and see a rocket that disintegrated his young boy's bed," Sderot resident Danny Dahan told Army Radio. "[His wife] was at home with their three-week-old son. She ran into the bomb shelter and was saved by a miracle," he said.

IDF Uncovers Two Rockets Being Assembled in Nablus

Palestinian Arab Muslims doing what they do best. From IDF Uncovers Two Rockets Being Assembled in Nablus:

Israel Defense Forces troops operating in the West Bank city of Nablus on Thursday discovered two rockets that were being assembled. A military source said the secret cache was discovered thanks to the IDF's freedom of operation in the West Bank, which has allowed it to thwart Palestinian Arab Muslim attempts to develop rockets in the area.

Palestinians are not exactly chained to their kassam rockets

The international global community which buys into the canard that Israel is the aggressor and palestinians are victims keep forgetting that palestinians are not exactly chained to their homicide belts and kassam rockets. Furthermore, if the Egyptians had kept their side of the Philadelphi deal, Islamic Jihad would have run out of explosives long ago. Then again, because Islam is in a permanent state of war with all non-Muslims and deception is a legitimate tactic, it is foolishness to have faith in Arabs when they are party to an agreement. From Nine Palestinian Rockets Hit Israel on Tuesday:

Three Qassam rockets landed south of Ashkelon and in an open field near the security fence along the border between Israel and Gaza on Tuesday. Also on Tuesday evening, the IAF struck at a Qassam launch site in the northern Gaza Strip. The first rocket landed in an open field south of Ashkelon. Later in the evening, two additional Qassams landed in an open field near the security fence. Tuesday morning, six Qassam rockets were fired from the northern Gaza strip into the western Negev. The al-Quds Brigades, the Islamic Jihad's military wing, claimed responsibility for these attacks.

Like rats, they retreat underground

The airraids are working because the vermin are retreating. But unfortunately, too many of them are still breathing and, alas, capable of breeding. From One Kassam Rocket Too Many:

The combination of Israeli air attacks, a tight economic blockade, and increasing losses among the terror organizations is putting Hamas under considerable pressure. Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh may speak of a tahdiya (lull, or quiet), though not a hudna (cease-fire), but Hamas' military wing, headed by Ahmad Jabari, does not accept his leadership. Hamas and Islamic Jihad forces number slightly over 10,000 men at arms. Dozens of gunmen are killed in Gaza every month.

Since ten Islamic Jihad militants were killed this week, several of them high up in the organization's military wing, there has been a decrease in rocket fire by Islamic Jihad. The militants fear the Israeli security services have succeeded in infiltrating their ranks and they have gone underground to limit the damage.

While Hamas is not launching Kassam rockets, it makes do with firing mortars at IDF bases and Israeli communities adjacent to Gaza. The military wing of Hamas is working on spectacular operations, along the lines of the abduction of IDF Cpl. Gilad Shalit. IDF operations two or three kilometers inside Gazan territory are aimed in part at preventing the excavation of tunnels that would enable terrorists to infiltrate IDF bases or kibbutzim close to the border, with the goal of abducting or killing Israelis.

The Rocket Threat from Gaza, 2001-2007

From The Rocket Threat from Gaza, 2001-2007:

Palestinian rocket fire at Israel from Gaza began in 2001. As of the end of November 2007, there have been a total of 2,383 identified rocket hits in Israel. Rocket fire has been directly responsible for the deaths of ten Israeli civilians , nine of them Sderot residents. In addition, 433 individuals have been wounded. Mortar fire has been responsible for the deaths of ten individuals, eight civilians and two IDF soldiers. Of the 150 wounded, 80 were civilians and 70 soldiers. More than 190,000 Israelis now live under the potential threat of daily rocket and mortar attacks.

Video: Israelis Under Siege in Sderot

You try to be never more than 15 seconds away from the nearest shelter.

Video: Israelis Under Siege in Sderot

Another Day, Another Palestinian Bombardment of Israel

Where's the international outrage? Where're those two pimps for palestinians, Charles Enderlin and France 2's News Director, Arlette Chabot? Aren't Jewish lives worth saving, you effing pimp bastards? From Another Day, Another Palestinian Bombardment of Israel:

The small Israeli town of Sderot is enveloping itself in a blanket of concrete. Schools and nurseries crouch below hulking canopies, dozens of bomb-shelters dot the urban landscape and even the bulletproof windows of one school have been provided with thick overhanging slabs. The town's open-air bus stops are being replaced with concrete cubicles. The profusion of concrete is a determined, but ultimately futile, attempt to shield Sderot's 20,000 citizens from the Kassam rockets that are fired into the town every day by Palestinian militants from Gaza.

"It's like Russian roulette. If it's your day you are finished," says Tiger Avraham, the head of the local paramedic team. "Children don't go outside and you cannot walk far from home. It's hard to live like this."

Israel's military planners are tormented by the thought of a rocket blowing up a Sderot school bus or inflicting a large number of civilian deaths through a direct hit.