2009 starts with a miracle: Grad hits Ashdod, none wounded

An apartment building in Ashdod was hit by a rocket, and nobody was hurt. The miracles just keep on coming.

A Grad rocket fired from northern Gaza at around noon Thursday struck an eight-storey apartment building in Ashdod. The rocket hit the building’s roof and penetrated two floors. There were no initial reports of injury. A fire broke out at the premises, but it was extinguished by firefighters who were dispatched to the scene. Some 20 people were treated for shock.

The Israeli Air Force struck a launching pad in Gaza used to fire the rocket at Ashdod. The target was reportedly destroyed.

Eyewitness Haim Sarusi told Ynet that a “huge cloud of smoke billowed over the building, as though someone had bombed the site from the air. A number of people screamed and asked for help. It’s a miracle that no one was hurt.”

What must be going through the minds of the Hamas terrorists at this point? They know they’re hitting Israeli sites, and when they score a big one—two floors of an apartment building—everyone makes it out untouched. Luck? Yeah. You could call it that. I don’t, but you can.

The Grad rocket attacks are proof that Israel made some serious errors when getting out of Gaza. First, she should never have given up control of the Philadelphi corridor. That allowed Hamas to smuggle the Grads in from Egypt. Second, Hamas should never have been allowed to run in Gaza elections.

Those two mistakes are what’s causing the rockets to fall in Beersheba and Ashkelon.

The Negev’s large cities were targeted again by Palestinian rocket-firing crews Wednesday, as two Grads slammed into residential neighborhoods in Ashkelon, and one that hit Beersheba heavily damaged a classroom that was fortunately empty.

In Ashkelon, air-raid sirens rang out to warn residents of both attacks, bringing cars to a stop and sending the few residents who had ventured outdoors scrambling for cover. The thud of a rocket landing could be heard shortly after each siren.

One rocket landed at a busy intersection while a second slammed into a road. Four people were lightly wounded by shrapnel, police said.

Can you picture a Grad rocket? Here’s a little help.

Those are what’s hitting Israel’s cities. Hamas had to smuggle in the rockets and the launchers. And they had to have the help of a state like Syria or Iran to get them.

Each time the IAF hits a Grad rocket launcher, that’s one step closer to stopping the rocket fire. They’re not like kassams. Destroy all the launchers, and the rockets are useless, except as secondary explosions when the IAF hits a rocket facility.

Do you read about Grad rocket details in the media, other than to name the rocket and point out the range? No. Because that doesn’t fit the narrative.

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3 Responses to 2009 starts with a miracle: Grad hits Ashdod, none wounded

  1. jen says:

    Someone needs to show this clip to Rosanne Barr, who likened Hamas to street gangs such as the Bloods or the Crips.

    I never heard of these being used in LA.
    http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1230733139909

  2. Roseanne Barr is a moron. Her words pretty much prove how stupid she is, and I mean that literally. She’s obviously incapable of perceiving complex issues like the difference between LA street gangs and terrorists who want the end of all Jews in Israel.

    She’s an ex-Jew.

  3. jen says:

    Agreed. I knew she had a huge mouth with nothing but hot air escaping, but this article actually shocked me. How is it possible that there are people out there who don’t see the truth of this situation?

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