Kassam rockets have been fired into Israel for days and days, even before the actions in Libya, yet as soon as Israel finds the cell responsible and removes that danger from their citizens, this is what makes the newsprint.
When are the Kassam rockets going to stop flying into Israel from Hamas? When does that happen? When does Hamas stop their violence? Because even after Israel has removed the cell firing the Kassam rockes there is another one starting the same thing all over again.
IAF strikes Gaza rocket launching cell; Hamas says 4 dead (click title to entry - thank you)
By JPOST.COM STAFF AND REUTERS03/22/2011 20:45
An IAF strike killed four Palestinian terrorists in Gaza on Tuesday, Hamas officials said. The IDF Spokesperson Unit said that IAF aircraft attacked a rocket launching cell in Gaza that was planning to attack Israeli targets.
Earlier Tuesday, an IDF mortar strike on a Kassam rocket launching site killed four Palestinian civilians, including three children. The strike was in response to four Kassam rockets that were fired into Israeli territory. Following that strike, two more Kassams were fired towards Ashkelon. No injuries were reported.
Earlier Tuesday, an IDF mortar strike on a Kassam rocket launching site killed four Palestinian civilians, including three children. The strike was in response to four Kassam rockets that were fired into Israeli territory. Following that strike, two more Kassams were fired towards Ashkelon. No injuries were reported.
A terrorist cell make up of one adult and three children? I do believe the IDF has very poor intelligence. Not that Israel wasn't acting in defense of their own citizens, but, these children were not firing Kassam rockets.
If Hamas embraces life for its citizens than it needs to arrest those that attempt to kill Israelis within Israel sovereign land. Where is the authority within Hamas to stop the rockets from entering Israel? If Hamas is capable of saying they want a truce then why are they not capable of carrying one out?
Hamas repeats commitment to keep unofficial truce (click here)
By KHALED ABU TOAMEH03/21/2011 21:12
Enemy? Israel is Hamas's enemy? When is Israel going to stop being seen as an enemy to Hamas. It was Ariel Sharon that moved settlements from Gaza to allow Palestinians their land. Israel is not the enemy. Israel is Hamas's scapegoat.
What is meant by the erosion of the IFT to deter Gaza violence, is that Hamas does not have control of their violent factions. There is no internal control in Gaza. The only control Israel has to Hamas violence from Gaza is to act in aggression to stem the violence before it escalates. The people of Israel do not see Hamas as a 'governing' entity capable of anything but allowing violence without end. Hamas should not even be allowed to be a political party if they cannot deliver a governing capacity to the people of Gaza.
Analysis: Gaza escalation shows IDF deterrence eroding (click here)
By YAAKOV KATZ03/21/2011 02:16
...The escalation in violence along the border, that continued Sunday with an antitank missile that was fired at an IDF Merkava tank, dates back to last Wednesday when the IDF, “in a rare move,” struck a Hamas position, killing two Hamas operatives, in retaliation for a rocket strike earlier that day.
The strike on Wednesday was rare for two reasons.
First, it was carried out in the middle of the day when, hitherto, most retaliatory attacks by the IDF to Palestinian rocket fire had taken place at night.
Second, the target chosen was a manned Hamas position – when, until then, it had been possible to count the number of Hamas operatives killed by the IDF in airstrikes since Operation Cast Lead on little more than one hand.
The IDF chose this target to try to teach Hamas a lesson that would lead it to crack down on other groups, like Islamic Jihad, which has been behind most of the terrorist activity coming out of Gaza since Cast Lead....
Israel does not have to teach anyone a lesson. Israel should be concentrating on non-proliferation of tensions between all the people along its borders and seek only to defend its citizens from violence crossing its borders. To 'teach' anyone a 'lesson' that they have learned for decades only reinforces their fear and anger and adds relentless time to the duration of that hatred.
Enough from everyone. EVERYONE.
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