Hamas claimed responsibility for the salvo of kassam rockets that killed a man who was committing the crime of sitting in his car.
A Israeli college student was killed on Wednesday after a Qassam rocket landed in a parking lot near the Sapir College campus in southern Israel. Medics alerted to the scene also treated two more Israelis for minor wounds.
The 30-year-old student who was killed reportedly died shortly after sustaining massive wounds to his chest.
The rocket attacks were proudly claimed by Hamas.
A total of 23 Qassam rockets were fired by Palestinian groups from Gaza on Wednesday afternoon, hitting a factory in an industrial zone and striking in and around the town of Sderot and other Gaza vicinity.
The last barrage included 11 rockets which were fired successively over the course of several short minutes. Hamas has claimed responsibility for the rocket attacks.
Watch for the non-Israeli media to use the “cycle of violence” motif and justify the kassam attacks because of this:
Five members of Hamas’ military wing, the Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades, were killed Wednesday morning after an IDF aircraft fired missiles at a bus and another vehicle carrying the group’s operatives west of the Gaza town of Khan Younis.
According to local sources, the bus was hit by several missiles as it was approaching a naval force post near Gaza’s coast. Several people were wounded in the strike.
Three of the men killed were reportedly senior commanders of the group’s rocket unit. Palestinian sources estimated that the bus had been under surveillance since it left the Jabalya area.
Gee, that was fast. Reuters wins the blame-Israel-moral-equivalence game.
Israel and Hamas violence spikes on Gaza border
A Palestinian rocket launched from the Gaza Strip killed one person in Israel on Wednesday, the first such fatality in nine months, after Israeli forces killed eight militants in the Hamas-controlled territory.
Note the headline, equating Israel’s striking terrorists who murder Israelis with terrorists, gee, murdering Israelis. Nice little moral equivalence game, Reuters. They’re absolute apologists for Hamas and other terrorist groups’ murderous attacks on Israel.
Earlier in the day, five militants, senior members of Hamas, were killed when the van in which they were travelling was attacked from the air near the southern Gaza town of Khan Younis, medical officials said.
[…] Hamas, which seized the Gaza Strip in June, struck back by firing more than 25 rockets at southern Israel, and two other militants were killed in an Israeli air strike on a launching site in the northern Gaza Strip, medical officials said.
But wait. There’s even more. Reuters may as well be Hamas’ PR company.
Hamas says attacks from the Gaza Strip, including rockets fired by its own militants and others, are a response to Israelimilitary operations in the territory and the occupied West Bank and would end if Israel stopped all such activity and lifted its blockade.
No one had been killed in Israel by a Palestinian rocket strike since May 2007.
Like that makes a difference. Two days ago a ten-year-old boy nearly lost his arm. A few weeks ago, a boy lost his leg. Nearly every single day, the residents of Sderot are forced to drop what they’re doing and run to a bomb shelter. The people of Sderot have no normal lives. But hey, nobody’s been killed in nine whole months, so that makes it all better.
Effing morons. Make the Reuters editors work from Sderot and see how fast the bias of the articles changes.
What exactly is “Hamas’ military wing”? I thought the whole damn outfit was a (murderous) military wing. In fact, even the term “military” is unjustified.
Hamas was founded as the military wing of the PLO, because they considered Arafat to be too willing to negotiate.
The fact that they have factions that are even more radical really doesn’t surprise me.
I’m sure you can follow this trend all the way up the food chain to one lone wacko who spends all of his time barricaded in a cave screaming “I’ll kill you, I’ll kill you all!” as he tries to figure out how to blow up the entire universe.
Wow, I bet this is the college that Tasha and Dishka go to.
When is Israel going to say enough is enough?