Really, it’s just unbelievably depressing that even Israel is pretending that kassam rockets launched at schoolchildren aren’t violations of the “truce.”
Palestinian terrorists fired five Qassam rockets at Gaza-region communities Friday morning. Two rockets reportedly landed in the Sderot area, while three other rockets landed in open areas in the western Negev.
No injuries were reported in the rocket barrage. The al-Quds Brigades, the military wing of Islamic Jihad, claimed responsibility for the attack.
One of the rockets reportedly landed near a water reservoir at a southern kibbutz. Another rocket hit the fence of a western Negev kibbutz.
Meanwhile, the alert level in the south was raised ahead of the opening of the school day. Security chiefs at various regional communities urged parents to remain alert and boosted their patrols in the area.
You have to understand something here: The Palestinians deliberately fire the rockets during the hours they know that Israeli children are walking to school, in the hopes of murdering children.
This is done with the full knowledge and support of Hamas, the terrorist group that the EU invited for a visit.
But it’s really not that big a deal. Because even the Israelis are pretending that the “lull” continues—even after more than 50 rockets have been fired in the last two and a half days.
Security officials told Ynet Thursday that the next 24 hours could determine whether the Gaza Strip lull will continue. The officials said the defense establishment was preparing for any possibility.
I can’t wait for Olmert to be gone.
Some of your ire should also be reserved for Labor leader Barak Meryl, aside from a full scale war reaction, these events are within his purview.. At least they opted to hit the tunnel, one might say, but it was only because of an imminent terror threat.
Everyone will be toughening up for the elections, but it is still too early. /cynicism
Of course rockets don’t break the truce, Meryl, if they’re Arab rockets. Israeli retaliatory strikes break the truce and are merely another aspect of “the cycle of violence that besets this war-torn land.”