Let’s keep an eye on this story. Here’s the first AP story on the kassam that landed in a military base in the Negev:
Rocket Hits Sleeping Israeli Soldiers
By ARON HELLER – 59 minutes agoJERUSALEM (AP) — A rocket fired from the Gaza Strip struck a tent filled with sleeping soldiers in a southern Israeli army base, wounding more than 25 of them early Tuesday, Israeli medics and the army said.
The army confirmed said the soldiers in the tent that was hit were all recent recruits in basic training at an army base in southern Israel less than a mile north of the Gaza Strip.
Eli Bin, director of the Magen David Adom rescue service, said one of the wounded soldiers was in critical condition, two were seriously injured, 25 others were lightly to moderately injured. The wounded were being evacuated to hospitals in southern Israel.
Islamic Jihad, a small radical militant group, claimed responsibility for the attack.
Palestinian militants in Gaza fire rockets daily at towns in southern Israel. The crude rockets wreak panic but rarely cause serious casualties. Gaza’s Hamas rulers have not been actively involved, but have done nothing to halt the rocket fire.
Tuesday’s attack was the largest number of injuries sustained in a single such attack against Israel.
Sderot, a working-class town of 22,000, and surrounding towns have been battered by thousands of projectiles launched in recent years from Gaza. The inaccurate rockets have killed 12 people in the past seven years.
Can’t wait to see what the story is like tomorrow when I wake up.
An hour later, and the wounded toll is up to 66 with at least one hanging to life by a thread.
Is it peace yet?
Perhaps it’s time to apply the Roman formula: solitudinem faciunt, pacem appellant. They make a desert and call it peace.
It doesn’t seem as if Israel’s neighbors are really interested in anything else themselves. Let’s see who can do it better.
“Make a desert and call it peace.”
Thank you Ed. That’s exactly what should be done.
And when should it be done? Now.
And what exactly? Tear off a mile strip from Gaza and use it as a buffer zone.
For everty major incident, take more land and take other actions which, in the past, the Gaza residents, have sorely respected.
The borders of Israel were the most comprehensive under David, and what did he do? He fought.
This isn’t polite or nice to say, but that’s exactly what we need to be doing now.
And if the US leaders were wise, they would be trying to partner with Israel, to increase ties, and Pollack would never have gone to jail.
Gaza is a cesspool that needs to be cleaned up !