More than twice as many Hamas rockets have hit ‘Palestinians’as have hit urban areas in Israel according to the Prime Minister’s office.
Sixty out of the 703 rockets Hamas fired during the four days of Operation Pillar of Defense fell inside the Gaza Strip on Palestinian civilians, PMO Spokesman said on Twitter on Saturday.
Only 27 of the rockets fell on urban areas in Israel. (article)
ISRAEL – A rocket fired from Gaza has hit a school in Ashkelon. This is the second time on Monday that a school in the city was hit by a Hamas missile. No injuries were reported, though the school building was damaged. […]
On the sixth day of Operation Pillar of Defense, Israel upped the frequency of its airstrikes at the Gaza Strip, targeting smuggling tunnels, rocket launching squads, weapons and ammunition caches (including one located under Gaza City’s main soccer stadium), and terror groups’ field commanders. The death toll in Gaza stands at 84, roughly two thirds of which are combatants. (more…)
Do you need a better example of how the Media-Left view Israel. I mean, c’mon it’s only a few hundred rockets falling upon you…. you don’t have to get all defensive about it. Sheeesh.
Mara Schiavocampo: “Living under the threat of rocket attack is certainly a psychological trauma. But what would you say to those who argue that the rockets are essentially very ineffective, they rarely do damage and that the response from Israelis is disproportional to the threat they’re under.”
Michael Oren: “Imagine if one rocket had fallen in the United States and not now since the year 2009, our last operation, we’ve had something in the vicinity of 8,000 rockets fall on the State of Israel. That’s more than twice all of the German rockets that fell on London during World War II. And you saw how the British and Americans reacted to that.”
ISRAEL – The Iron Dome intercepted two Iranian-made Fajr-5 missiles aimed at Tel Aviv on Saturday. The missiles marked the third attack on the heavily populated central city in as many days, after Palestinian terrorists from Gaza fired four missiles toward the financial capital on Thursday and Friday, prompting red alert air raid sirens to sound in the city.
While police said that one of the missiles landed in an open area, a military source told The Jerusalem Post that the Iron Dome intercepted both missiles. (more…)
T’was the night before Jihad, when all through the land
Not a missile was nestled, all fuses in hand.
Our splodey vests hung by the prayer mat with care
in the hope that our virgins soon would be there. (more…)
You just can’t make this stuff up folks…… Yet the sheeple?
Egyptian President Morsi:
“I don’t want to take unusual steps, but if I see that the homeland is in danger, I won’t hesitate.”
“Gaza will not remain alone as it was,” adding that the aggressors “know they will pay a heavy price is they continue their aggression.”
He further said that the post-Mubarak Egypt was completely different and that all Egyptians were determined to stop the offensive on the Gaza Strip.
“The blood spilled over there will not get the other side peace and will serve as a curse on them. It will incite all the people of the region against them.”
And what does President Obama do? He thanks him….. (Reuters) – U.S. President Barack Obama called Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi on Friday to commend the country’s efforts to help calm the situation in Israel and Gaza and underscored his hope of restoring stability there, the White House said.
Egypt’s prime minister, Hisham Kandil, has said Cairo is prepared to mediate a truce in the growing violence between Israel and Hamas, the Islamist group that runs the Gaza Strip. Egypt’s government is allied with Hamas, but is also party to a 1979 peace treaty with Israel. (article)
Earlier in the day – “The price will be high if the aggression continues,” Morsi said after he performed Friday prayers in Fatma Al-Sharbatly Mosque in Cairo’s Fifth Settlement. (more…)
ISRAELI CABINET APPROVES PLAN TO MOBILIZE UP TO 75,000 RESERVE TROOPS FOR GAZA CAMPAIGN – POLITICAL SOURCES
— Reuters (@Reuters) November 16, 2012
JERUSALEM, Nov 16 (Reuters) – Israeli tanks and troops massed outside Gaza and the military said on Friday it was calling up 16,000 reservists, 75,000 reservists, signs of a possible imminent invasion of the Palestinian enclave after 48 hours of air strikes.
Israel’s warplanes, drones and helicopters appeared to shift focus from suspected Palestinian rocket sites to the northern Gaza frontier, where their bombs created incursion corridors by clearing landmines or guerrilla gun nests. (more…)
While international eyes are on Gaza…… and the conversation is about how will Egypt react….. Now is when the islamist jihadists will move on Jordan….. Dangerous time.
Video from last night in Israel:
Meanwhile the “western media” flock out of Tel-Aviv to Gaza City. Why? Why to cover the humanitarian crisis in Gaza of course. Also, because the Israeli Defense Force are highly accurate with their retaliatory strikes, and do not randomly fire missiles into non military targets, it’s actually safer there. (more…)
A MESSAGE FROM SOUTHERN ISRAEL – […] Our kids are showing signs of severe stress. Our spouses have stopped eating when there is news about an attack in Gaza. Our blood pressure goes up as we count off the locations where missiles have fallen – sometimes when we were only a few hundred meters away. The sound of a distant car alarm sets off a crying jag that simply has no real justification other than that burning feeling of not being able to take it anymore.
The unified, resilient front is still there, but it is being propped up by a million people living under threat of missile fire, each of us forced to confront our own individual fears. My own response has already become physical – clearly a manifestation of PTSD. And I am not alone. All my rational understanding of the futility of war has simply become raw, unpolished fear that comes over me when I hear that piercing sound of the siren. (more…)