Comments on: So who broke the ceasefire? http://www.yourish.com/2009/01/28/6204 Cutting straight to the point Sun, 12 Feb 2012 21:56:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 By: Ray in Seattle http://www.yourish.com/2009/01/28/6204/comment-page-1#comment-35900 Ray in Seattle Wed, 28 Jan 2009 20:21:33 +0000 http://www.yourish.com/?p=6204#comment-35900 So who broke then ceasefire? I spent 5 minute with Google on this. From CBC on June 18 at start of "calm". http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2008/06/18/israel-gaza.html Meanwhile, Israeli defence officials warned that a lone rocket or mortar fired by any militant group would be considered a violation of the agreement and could lead to a swift Israeli response. "A single Qassam [rocket] can murder, and one must remember that this is a weapon of fear," Israeli newspaper Haaretz quoted Maj.-Gen. Amos Gilad as saying Wednesday night, using the name of the rockets frequently fired from Gaza into southern Israel. From IDF Stats page: June '08 after start of calm on June 19: 10 Qassam, 5 mortars July '08: 5 Qassam, 15 mortars Aug '08: 10 Qassam, 15 mortars Sept '08: 5 Qassam, 2 mortars Oct '08 thru Nov 3: 2 Qassam, 5 mortars That's when the IDF attacked the kidnapping tunnel. http://idfspokesperson.com/category/idf-statistics/ It's interesting how news discussions always talk about the IDF attack on the tunnel as breaking the "calm". Somehow they forget about the 32 Qassams and 42 mortars fired into Israel by Hamas during the "calm". So who broke then ceasefire? I spent 5 minute with Google on this. From CBC on June 18 at start of “calm”.

http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2008/06/18/israel-gaza.html

Meanwhile, Israeli defence officials warned that a lone rocket or mortar fired by any militant group would be considered a violation of the agreement and could lead to a swift Israeli response.

“A single Qassam [rocket] can murder, and one must remember that this is a weapon of fear,” Israeli newspaper Haaretz quoted Maj.-Gen. Amos Gilad as saying Wednesday night, using the name of the rockets frequently fired from Gaza into southern Israel.

From IDF Stats page:

June ’08 after start of calm on June 19: 10 Qassam, 5 mortars

July ’08: 5 Qassam, 15 mortars

Aug ’08: 10 Qassam, 15 mortars

Sept ’08: 5 Qassam, 2 mortars

Oct ’08 thru Nov 3: 2 Qassam, 5 mortars

That’s when the IDF attacked the kidnapping tunnel.

http://idfspokesperson.com/category/idf-statistics/

It’s interesting how news discussions always talk about the IDF attack on the tunnel as breaking the “calm”. Somehow they forget about the 32 Qassams and 42 mortars fired into Israel by Hamas during the “calm”.

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