More than 50 rockets fired from Gaza: Israeli killed

More than 50 rockets fired from Gaza: Israeli killed


By Nidal al-Mughrabi

GAZA Aug 20 (Reuters) - An Israeli man was killed on Saturday in a rocket strike launched from Gaza, medics said, the latest death in a three-day spasm of violence that has claimed the lives of more than 30 people.

Israeli security officials said seven other people were wounded, including two children, by more than 50 rockets fired from the Hamas-ruled territory on Saturday. In Gaza, an Israeli air strike wounded a Palestinian man seriously, medics said.

A militant group called the Popular Resistance Committees (PRC) claimed responsibility for the deadly rocket strike at a house in the southern city of Beersheba, while Hamas's armed wing claimed responsibility for another attack that destroyed a home in the town of Ofakim.

It was the first time in months that Hamas had declared its involvement in rocket attacks against Israel, after largely observing a de facto truce since the end of a three-week offensive in January 2009.

Israel has launched aerial attacks on Gaza that have killed 15 people, among them gunmen and five civilians including three children, since a deadly assault along its border killed eight Israelis on Thursday.

Eli Bein, a spokesman for Magen David Paramedic services, said an Israeli man had died in hospital of injuries suffered in the rocket strike in Beersheba.

At least two more people were wounded seriously in the same barrage, paramedics and police said.

An earlier rocket attack injured three Palestinian men from the occupied West Bank as they hid in a sand dune outside the Israeli city of Ashdod, a police spokeswoman said.


A military spokesman said more than 50 rockets and mortars had been fired at Israel during the day and 75 since Thursday.

The steady rocket fire has disrupted life in much of southern Israel. Many shelter in safe rooms made of reinforced concrete when the frequent air raid sirens blare.

Israeli leaders held consultations about a possible response to the Gaza rockets. Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman issued a statement blaming the Palestinian self-rule government in the occupied West Bank for Thursday's violence.

The Palestinian leadership "bears full responsibility for the murderous terror attacks against Israelis who were on vacation", he said.

"The events of the past days prove that Palestinian talk of abandoning the path of terror and moving to diplomacy is as far from reality as the distance between Ramallah and the U.N. headquarters in New York."

Hamas said on Friday it would "not allow the enemy to escalate its aggression without getting punished."

Israel has said the PRC was responsible for Thursday's gun ambush on the Egyptian border, a charge the group has denied. Israeli forces killed the group's commander in an air strike on Thursday.

Five Egyptian security personnel and seven gunmen were also killed in Thursday's clashes, an incident that has sparked a crisis in Israeli-Egyptian ties with Cairo saying it was recalling its ambassador to Tel Aviv earlier on Saturday.


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I guess this is how Hamas signals their statehood? LOL!

They want a war, and they will likely get one.

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Their is no other option then to hunt down and capture/kill the terrorists who launch the violent escalations in long standing unrest and disagreements between both sides.

Its like when the Palastinians feel like they are loosing support or the media spotlight they lob a few salvos or shoot up a bus because they know the IDF will take an offensive defense, and that gives them something to try and drum up emotions again.

If the IDF used the same strategy Gaza and the West Bank would be empty within a week. Hamas and co are hypocrites who's currency is killing innocent people on both sides.

 

Is it just me or is this kind of hubris only going to get a bunch more "innocent" palestinians killed. Again it seems Hamas has no problem having the streets filled with the blood of the people they rule.

No problem because to their way of thinking all those innocent civilians are martyrs for the cause. And it makes such good propaganda against the evil jews.

Hamas gets in a couple of pinpricks and Gaza gets buckets of blood. What a great victory for them.

 

Israel need to set up a zero tolerance rule with very simplistic but very solid guidelines.
maybe something like this:
for every attack on Israel that misses its mark and there are no fatalities we are going to respond by killing at least 15 palastinians, we will target militant persons but if civillians are affected then so be it.
for every attack that actually hits a mark and there are fatalities, for each Israeli fatality or injury we will respond by killing at least 100 palastinians, of coarse targeting militant personel, they should do fly overs dropping pamphlets that explains this so that all those in gaza understand the rules.
once a thousand or so palastinians are killed because 10 or so Israelis where injured, maybe the peace loving citizens of gaza will begin to stand uo to hamas and maybe we'll start getting somewhere.

 

Granny says dem Palestinians need to quit provokin' Israel...

Israelis blame 'terrorist' border attacks on Gaza militants, poor security
August 18, 2011 - Multiple attacks killed at least seven Israelis today near the Egyptian border. Israel's defense minister blamed militants in Gaza, while a former ambassador said Israeli forces were caught by surprise.

See also:

Israel retaliates against Gaza, but deterrence game has changed
August 19, 2011 - Egypt's weakening control in the Sinai, from which militants launched attacks that killed eight Israelis yesterday, is a wild card in the policy of mutual deterrence between Israel and Hamas.

 

Terrorist do what terrorist do, no suprise here

What i was amazed to see is the weak Egyptian gov and media that gave the crowd what they wanted, a pointing fingre at Israel, no word about the attackers firing from the border posts, i think about the racist right wing ppl i know that always said we cant trust Egypt and that the peace we HAD(?) was on paper only....

sad, but this whole area is cursed

 

Place 10 howitzers near Gaza and fire 10 shells for every rocket, without aiming or anything just at gaza. Same way Hamas attacks Israel lets see who wins a contest of lobbing explosives.

 

And how many of the Native People have the nazis killed so far? The normal ratio - as it was with their Great Model - is about ten people for one nazi gunman, not to speak of illegal collective punishments and targetted child murder. Why do the Americans allow their own nazis to make them subsidize these scumbags?

 

I put this into Google translator, but it still didn't make sense.

I have noticed that the usual Pal supporters are all out walking the dog or something.


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Gaza Militants Keep Up Rocket Fire on Israel



Aug 20: Israeli security officers inspect a damaged house hit by a rocket fired by Palestinian militants from the Gaza Strip in the southern Israeli city of Beersheba.





Militants in the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip fired a barrage of rockets and mortars on southern Israel early Sunday, striking an empty school and a dozen other targets, as U.S. and Egyptian diplomats were scrambling to keep the new convulsion of Israeli-Palestinian violence from escalating.

Senior Israeli officials met late into the night to discuss the violence, weighing whether to step up retaliatory operations against Gaza militants they say triggered the latest round of hostilities Thursday with a roadside ambush along the Israeli-Egypt border that killed eight Israelis.

Military spokesman Brig. Gen. Yoav Mordechai said Israel's current response to the surge in violence -- airstrikes that have killed 15 Palestinians, most of them militants -- was not its final word.

Israel "will not hesitate" to widen its military operation if necessary, he told Israel Radio. "We will see how things develop on the ground," he said without elaborating.

Palestinian security forces reported that the Israeli military rounded up 50 Hamas activists in the West Bank in an overnight raid. The military had no comment.

The West Bank is ruled by the Western-backed Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, who lost control of Gaza to bitter rival Hamas in a violent 2007 takeover. A reconciliation pact the two sides signed in May after years of failed efforts has stalled.

Since Thursday's ambush, militants have fired around 100 rockets and mortars on southern Israel, killing an Israeli man and seriously wounding two other people on Saturday. No serious injuries have been reported from the bombardment early Sunday, the military said.

Diplomats were scrambling to prevent the flare-up in violence from spiraling out of control.

Yaser Otham, the Egyptian representative to the Palestinian Authority, told Voice of Palestine Radio that Cairo was "in contact with all parties to restore the truce in Gaza."

Militant factions in Gaza confirmed the efforts. Talal Abu Tharefeh, spokesman for the small Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine, said "all the Palestinian factions are interested in restoring the truce in order to protect our people."

Militant attacks from Gaza diminished sharply after Israel launched a punishing, three-week war in the territory launched in December 2008, following years of relentless rocket and mortar fire on its southern communities. Since then, armed factions have largely maintained a cease-fire.

Egypt was drawn into last week's violence after at least three of its security forces were killed as Israeli troops pursued militants involved in the ambush along the Israel-Egypt border. Cairo initially threatened to withdraw its ambassador to Israel but relented after Israel apologized.

Western diplomats in Cairo said Washington was mediating between the Egyptians and the Israelis to try to prevent the violence from exploding. They spoke on condition of anonymity in order to discuss ongoing diplomatic efforts.

An Israeli Foreign Ministry official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said U.S., French and German mediators had been involved in defusing the diplomatic crisis with Egypt.

While the crisis appears to have been defused, Israeli officials say they are not convinced it cannot re-ignite.

In the Egyptian capital, popular anger simmered, and protesters gathered outside the Israeli Embassy for a third day on Sunday, demanding the expulsion of the Israeli envoy who is now vacationing abroad.

Although the military leaders who now rule Egypt have expressed their commitment to the two nations' 1979 peace treaty, anti-Israel sentiment has grown in Egypt since its longtime autocratic leader, Hosni Mubarak, was toppled by a popular uprising in February. Israel is watching closely for signs that Egypt's new rulers might be responding to that sentiment.

Israel relied on Mubarak as a trusted, if cool, ally, maintaining the peace accord despite Egyptian disappointment that it did not lead to peace between Israel and the Palestinians, and a comprehensive Arab-Israeli agreement. Israeli officials are wary about instability in post-Mubarak Egypt and fear a new government that might distance itself further from Israel.

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/world/2011/08/21/gaza-militants-keep-up-rocket-fire-on-israel/#ixzz1VfVUDDMO

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Hamas doesn't care about it's own people. Their leaders are hiding in Syria and elsewhere. The purpose of the Palestinian people is to be victims of Israeli retaliation for political gain and shocking video.

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I agree. Let the war just get on at this point. Were it not for oil Israel would have long ago laid waste to the antagonists.

Time for WW3 already. Let's get it on and be done with it.

 

The Israeli press;

Netanyahu is hoping to take the pressure off his own internal problems with a nice little local slaughter repeat. Give 'em blood, eh Bibi ?

 

A bit like the entire Arab World when they blame virtually every problem on the Jews

sharks in the red sea? = Zionist fault
Poor harvest = Zionist fault
Poor democracy and economy due to a full stop retarded religion = Zionist fault.

Israel is the bastion and shield of the west against the global genocidal Jihad. Support them.

 

These areas that the rockettes are supposed to have hit. How many of them were previously arab communities which have been ethnically cleansed to make way for Zionists ?

 

Bibi is shooting rockets into Israel?

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I take it some ethnic group has the right to slaughter your family because you live on their land?


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You mean were arabs lived until they left / were expelled after they started a war and last. Pretty much like how Germany lost land.

Perhaps Germany should fire rockettes at Poland and look forward to their reaction.

 

I ask again, these areas that the rockettes are supposed to have hit. How many of them were previously arab communities which have been ethnically cleansed to make way for Zionists ?

 

You can't honestly answer, can you? LOL!

Are you living on stolen land?


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You're aware then that all of them are areas from which arabs have been ethnically cleansed, as part of the Zionist program ?

 

Moon, I'm just wondering, if you live on stolen land because using your logic someone has the blood right to slaughter you and your family. I find this to be an odd belief.

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The areas into which the rockettes, allegedly, fell are all areas previously occupied by Palestinians. Those previous inhabitants have been ethnically cleansed as part of the Zionist clearance program. Many of them are now inhabitants of Gaza and are determined to continue their fight to regain their homes and land irrespective of what the UN says, irrespective of what Hamas says and - above all- in total contempt of anything that the Zionist occupiers might have to say about land which isn't theirs. Even accepting the divisions of the Partition Resolution, UNGAR 181- which Israel certainly does not- some of these areas are, were and always will be Palestinian territory. Claims that the rockettes are falling on ' Israel ' should really be claims that the rockettes are falling on Occupied Palestine, according to those who have been displaced. It follows that those who occupy Palestine are legitimate targets for the previous inhabitants, no matter what any Israeli-biased legislation might state.

 

Israel's leaders are desperately trying to provoke the Gazans into fighting so they can try and deflect criticism away from them (Israel's leaders).

I saw this coming as soon as the 'Israeli Spring' demonstrations started.

Too bad the Gazans are letting themselves get suckered into it.


And btw- I don't care who 'officially' fired the first shot/missile...Israel probably started it..either straight up or covertly...I guarantee you they started it.

 

They've been living under the Zionist jackboot for decades. WTF do you expect them to do?