11:05PM: Israel Radio reports that Hamas has threatened to fire rockets at areas north of Ashkelon.
10:45PM: 2 more Qassams.
10:13PM: Scenes from Sderot:
9:57PM: 3 more Qassams have been fired in to Israel.
9:40PM: This bears reminding:
2000 – Israel’s unilateral withdrawal from Lebanon; 2006 – Israel attacked by Hizbullah in Lebanon, who fire Katusha rockets into Israel
2005 – Israel’s unilateral withdrawal from Gaza; 2007 – Israel attacked by palestinian terror groups in Gaza, who fire Kassam rockets into Israel
Will giving up land help achieve peace, or rather embolden the terrorists? I think this recent history demonstrates the answer.
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9:25PM: New UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has expressed “deep concern that armed Palestinians continue to launch rockets at Israel in an attempt to harm civilians. These attacks are not acceptable and breach international law.”
Since when do terrorists follow international law?
9:22PM: I just heard what I assume to be an IAF aircraft fly over my house.
9:10PM: The woman seriously wounded in the last Qassam attack has died. She was 35 years of age.
8:46PM: Holy close calls, Batman! Thanks to Israellycool reader Chris for pointing me to this video of a Qassam falling near a gas station.
8:32PM: 3 women have been wounded, including one seriously, after a Qassam hit their car as they were parking near a bakery.
I cannot even imagine the horror.
8:30PM: Directly relevant to my previous update:
The United States defended Israel’s retaliatory attacks into the Gaza Strip on Monday while saying it was “absolutely regrettable” that lives were lost during the actions.“Israel is faced with the difficult challenge countering these continued rocket attacks from Gaza into Israeli territory,” State Department spokesman Sean McCormack said. “They have a right to defend themselves.” he said the United States has urged Israeli officials to avoid any undue damage against the Palestinian infrastructure as well as to take into account how their actions can impact peace diplomacy with the Palestinians.
Lebanese security forces are justified in their attacks on Islamist militants in a Palestinian refugee camp in northern Lebanon, the US State Department said on Monday.“It would appear that the Lebanese security forces are working in a legitimate manner to provide a secure, stable environment for the Lebanese people in the wake of provocations and attacks by violent extremists,” said State Department spokesman Sean McCormack.
Spokesman of al-Quds Brigades, the Islamic Jihad’s military wing, commented on the IDF attack in the Gaza Strip, in which four of his organization’s men were killed, saying, “The attack will not make us stop the Qassam shooting.”
“The leaders of the Zionist enemy will pay for this,” he added.
A senior Hamas figure in Gaza was quoted Monday as urging Palestinian factions to “continue to fight the Jews until the last of them is gone from Palestine.”In an interview with Hamas Television quoted on Israel Radio, Nizar Riyan, a leading member of the Islamic group’s political wing, said: “It is a definite decision within the organization that Israel will be removed from the map, to be replaced by a Palestinian state.”
