Since Israel withdrew from the Gaza Strip in 2005, terrorists have fired more than 8,000 rockets into Israel. Over 3.5 million Israelis are currently living under threat of rocket attacks.
More than half a million Israelis have less than 60 seconds to find shelter after a rocket is launched from Gaza into Israel. Most rockets launched from Gaza into Israel are capable of reaching Israel’s biggest southern cities.
Rocket Attacks on Israel From Gaza • IDF Blog | The Official Blog of the Israel Defense Forces
Related: List of Palestinian rocket attacks on Israel, 2014 – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Israel’s military said more than 20 rockets were fired. Israeli media reported more than 50 rockets were fired.
The Iranian-backed Islamic Jihad has killed dozens of Israelis in suicide bombings and other attacks over the years. Israel’s military said they had targeted the militants on Tuesday after they fired at Israel.
Gaza militants fire large barrage of at least 20 rockets into Israel; no casualties reported
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If the weapons stored in Gaza allow it, this can only escalate unless or until the IDF steps in with boots to stop it.
The news also tells the effect of having intercepted a major arms shipment last week: is the one shipment caught, however substantial it may be, the only shipment that needed to be caught?
The numbers seem to be going up. The news broke with the term “barrage” used, then noted “more than 20”, and recently AFP reported “over 50” and this latest link — BREAKING: Palestinians Fire at Least 60 Rockets At Southern Israel – The Tower – The Tower – reports “at least 60”.
The saddest statement for reading from the above:
A top Hamas official publicly boasted this week that the Iran-backed terror group intends to blanket Israel with missiles and rockets during any future conflagration. Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon had warned as far back as last fall that Hamas was arming itself in anticipation of “a renewal of violence,” an assessment that came amid increasingly specific intelligence indicating that the organization was looking to provoke a conflict with Israel in order to reverse what had become a precipitous decline in its domestic and international positions.
Competing to hate, to express more hate than someone else’s hate, to do more with hate and thereby garner “prestige” . . . .
What’s garnered universally by such a philosophy: contempt.
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Video Shows Terrorists Fired From Civilian Areas – Defense/Security – News – Israel National News
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Earlier
Gaza rocket barrage strikes southern Israel – Middle East – Al Jazeera English
AFP: Gaza militants fire ‘over 50 rockets’ at Israel
Gaza militants fire large rocket barrage at Israel – The Washington Post
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