One of the reasons that the IDF is currently in Gaza is to stop rockets from raining down on Israeli towns from Gaza. Like the one that hit a high school in Ashkelon today.
The AP lied about it:
The rocket flew 7 miles through the air and exploded in the courtyard of a school in Ashkelon, a city of 110,000 on Israel’s coast north of Gaza. The school was empty at the time and no one was hurt. School security cameras showed a large cloud of white dust rising from the point of impact.
Ynet did not:
Large police forces were dispatched to the area. There were no reports of injuries, although a large number of parents and students were present at the school at the time of the fall.
[…] Many parents had arrived in the school to register their children to the school.
Sara Blumenfeld from Ashkelon told Ynet: “We were standing in the school yard, and suddenly, like a huge black bird, we hears a whistle, and then saw think smoke and a lot of noise. Many children and parents were in the school yard and everyone panicked and began yelling. One woman fainted and everyone quickly ran away.”
Another eyewitness, Motti Hari-Gat, recounted: “There was a huge explosion in the school yard. I jumped from my chair. It was a serious blast. I didn’t hear a whistle or the Red Dawn (alert system.) This is the center of the city, not its suburbs. There are many police forces here and we can see smoke from the windows.”
The words “small” and “homemade” are used to describe the rocket in the AP piece. The one that said the school was empty
The “small” “homemade” rocket was described by eyewitnesses in the JPost:
No one was wounded by the rocket, which landed in a playground of a school in the heart of the Ashkelon residential area. Children playing soccer outside the ORT-Ronson High School on Rehov Ben Zvi were thrown back by the force of the explosion, witnesses reported, but were unharmed.
Ha’aretz has a map of Ashkelon’s position in Israel. Go look. It is not a “settlement.” It is not a border town. It is in Israel proper.
The JPost article has a picture of the rocket’s crater. Imagine that thing coming down through a classroom ceiling.
Now go read Omri’s posts on how the world is ignoring the real reasons why Israel went into Gaza. If you’re not outraged, then you are suffering from Israel Derangement Syndrome.
By the way, don’t hold your breath waiting for the UN to condemn Hamas for raining rockets down on Ashkelon from Gaza. Not gonna happen.
I linked this in the update to post about the Qassams.