Tracers of rockets fired from Gaza. Photo: AP [file]
Jan 9, 2009 7:28
Updated Jan 10, 2009 8:42
Mortar shells fired at Kerem Shalom (click here)
By JPOST.COM STAFF
Palestinian gunmen in Gaza on Friday afternoon broke the three-hour humanitarian truce, during which Israel let in vital aid to the Strip via the Kerem Shalom border crossing.
While the supplies were being transferred, Gaza gunmen fired several mortar shells at the terminal. No one was wounded.
Earlier, just after 1 p.m., when the temporary truce was supposed to have already begun, Palestinians fired three Grad-type rockets at Ashdod.
In the early evening, gunmen fired two rockets at the Eshkol region, lightly wounding one person and damaging a building. During the day, rockets also hit the Sdot Negev region, Ofakim, Sderot, Beersheba, Ashkelon, and Merhavim regions. There were no other reports of wounded or damage....
In order to have a ceasefire, other sides have to stop their attacks, otherwise it is a very short agrement. So. Why should Israel agree to a one sided ceasefire? It makes no sense.
An LA Times Opinion makes a good point and one shared by myself and those that seek to protect the troops and civilians of Israel, namely their government.
Opinion
Hamas' war crimes (click title to article, thank you)
In Gaza, it targets Israeli citizens with rockets, then shields its fighters behind Palestinian civilians.
By Alan M. Dershowitz January 10, 2009
A temporary cease-fire in Gaza that simply allows Hamas to obtain more lethal weapons will assure a repetition of Hamas' win-win tactic of firing rockets at Israeli civilians while using Palestinian civilians as human shields....
Those that want Israel to simply stop the attacks, such as Iran and other Middle East sympathizers; are using 'the sympathy' for the civilians of Gaza as a PR weapon to bring pressure to Israel. There is no sympathy for the civilians of Gaza held hostage by Hamas? Or the civilians of Israel? I see.
IDF soldiers sleep next to the Gaza border.
The only action that makes any sense at all is that of the UN to reinstate the Palestinian Authority in Gaza. To that end, Israel has been successful in stopping any authority of Hamas, even as a political party. The question remains as to how the PA will actually exert its authority with Hamas still supplied and armed?
Regardless of any assumtion of power by the Palestinian Authority it will still need Israel to stop the shelling and assume control until the PA has sufficient ability to carry out sovereignty over Gaza.
Jan 10, 2009 10:13
Updated Jan 10, 2009 18:10
'UN drafting Gaza plan to reinstate PA' (click here)
...The Times reported on Saturday morning that the UN diplomats were drawing up a plan to bring in international monitors to police the border crossing which has been a porous entryway for weapons and other smuggled goods until Israel's Operation Cast Lead began 15 days ago....
