Gaza Militants Renew Rocket Fire Despite Truce

Gaza Militants Renew Rocket Fire Despite Truce


Palestinian militants in the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip fired rockets and mortars into southern Israel early Monday, despite an unofficial truce meant to defuse days of escalating violence.

Around midday, a group that had held out from joining the cease-fire announced it would comply.

The Israeli military said 15 projectiles were launched at Israel overnight, most of which fell in open fields. No injuries were reported. Israel retaliated with an airstrike before midnight Sunday that targeted a rocket-launching device.

A Hamas official said Sunday that militant groups in Gaza had agreed a truce would go into effect that evening to end three days of clashes between Israel and Gaza gunmen. Hamas security personnel would enforce the Egypt-brokered agreement, he said.

The latest round of violence began with a deadly attack on Israelis near the Egypt-Israel border on Thursday. That touched off a deadly round of Israeli airstrikes and rocket fire from Gaza.

About 15 Palestinians, most of them gunmen, were killed in the air attacks. Eight Israelis died in the border attack and another was killed by rocket fire.

The Popular Resistance Committees had resisted joining the cease-fire because Israel assassinated several of its senior members in an airstrike Thursday, accusing them of involvement in the border ambush, another Hamas official said Monday. He spoke on condition of anonymity because he wasn't authorized to speak for the other group.

But Monday afternoon, the PRC told a news conference it would join the truce.

In the meantime, militant leaders in Gaza said they were lying low and not answering their telephones, fearing the Israelis would be able to locate and assassinate them.

The sudden flare-up in violence also caused new friction in relations between Israel and Egypt, after Egypt accused Israel of killing five of its security forces while pursuing militants responsible for the frontier ambush on Thursday.

Under pressure from popular anti-Israel sentiment, the Egyptian government at one point threatened to recall its ambassador to Israel. Israel apologized and Egypt recanted.

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Give them all the counter-battery fire that they want. No one should go without.


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Thanks for sharing, DonGlock.

This latest incident just proves the Palestinians are too violent and too threatening and too irrational to every be recognized by the United Nations.

I sincerely believe the people in this forum who mistakenly support the "palllies" in this conflict are confusing the Arabs of modern "Palestine" with the ancient "Philistines". Both groups are completely and distinctly different.

"The so-called Palestinian people are the descendants of a mixed populace of local inhabitants together with numerous other groups of Muslims brought to Palestine from Bosnia, the Balkans, and the Caucasus by the Turks, and from the Sudan, Egypt, Syria, and Lebanon by the British."

If anyone can prove this statement is incorrect, I would love to see it! There were small groups of Arabs living in the area at the time of the Balfour Declaration (1917), but these groups were peacefully assimilated in 1948 when the Jewish state of Israel was established in the Middle East by a legitimate and legal act of the United Nations.

 

Interesting. Thanks for posting.

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There can never be a "truce" with Muslims. That idea, as we have come to understand it, is not a part of their culture. There is only hudna, which is a temporary cease fire until such a time arises where they have sufficient strength to gain the upper hand. Hudna will exist as long as they identify themselves as the weaker side. Whenever they believe they can win, they call off the truce and the fighting resumes. This is how they've operated since the very beginning of their religion.

 

Or by anyone else for that matter.

 

this is an truly easy challenge.


From the Israel genealogical society
http://www.isragen.org.il/siteFiles/1/153/4979.asp

"In 1922, the British undertook the first census of the mandate. At that time, the population stood at 752,048 individuals, including 589,177 Muslims, 83,790 Jews, 71,464 Christians and 7,617 persons belonging to other groups. "


Or perhaps a palestinian source. the chart below has a detailed explanation of the numbers at link.
http://www.palestineremembered.com/Acre/Palestine-Remembered/Story559.html

Table 1
Palestinian Population, 1860-2000 (thousands)
YEAR WITHIN PALESTINE
1860 411
1890 553
1914 738
1918 689 **
1931 860
1940 1,086
1946 1,308
1950 1,170
1960 1,340
1970 1,412
1980 1,992
1990 2,731
2000 3,787

Or perhaps an academic source:

MidEastWeb
http://www.mideastweb.org/palpop.htm

A very detailed essay with references of population in Palestine.

"However, there is no hard evidence that more than 100,000 or 200,000 (out of about 1.3 million in all of Palestine, and about 7-800,000 in the area that was to become Israel in 1948 Palestinians had immigrated to the land that was to become Israel"

 

I wonder why Israel doesn't simply follow the Hamas modus operandi? Look the other way and allow various groups to fire indiscrimately into civilian zones.

 

As far as I can tell the area covered for that census included a large area and is not representative of todays Palestine or Israel alone?

 

These independent guerrillas haven't made any ' truce' and they probably never will. Clearly, they can't be stopped. The Zionist government cannot stop the insane activities of the very squatters which it funds.

 

Great idea! The Pal supporters already support these activities.

 

They already do. The illegal squatters often murder Palestinian farmers and the IOF have carte blanche to murder Palestinians in designated ' kill zones '. That's not to mention the frequent assassinations, sometimes in other countries. Some dudes have the hasbara bone stuck deep in their throats.

 

Carve off Jordan. It was established in 1921 and recieved international recognition in 1922.

 

Illegal squatter often get killed by palestinians too.

And kill zones are clearly marked areas and are a common military practice by every military in the world. show up in a kill zone and expect to be dead.

Yes, frequent assassinations. They are pretty good at it, only one innocent guy killed. Terror for terrorists, sweet irony.

 

The Zionists love complicit collaborators in the actions undertaken by illegal squatters like you. I guess you would of turned a blind eye to the nazi atrocities in the Warsaw Ghetto too?

 

You are saying a group which represents people where Mein Kampf is a best seller is untrustworthy and violent towards Jews?

I AM SHOCKED

 

Yet more crap from our resident islamophobe and racist.

 

They are legitimate targets.

Then there should be ' kill zones ' inside Israel .

They will answer for them in due course.

 

Moon,

lets agree that generations of blood and hate produced ppl that will never be satisfied and will never be appeased - in both sides

Israel only needs to draw back from certain areas and no more illigal insane activities, hate will undaughtly remain but without teeth,
the Palesitinans on the other side are yet to prove their ability to control the hate levels the war created and they fed during the years

Thats's why Israelies seek guarentees for a peace treaty or at least show us that if such peace in whatever terms be reached - Palestinians can live in peace with Israelis, cause our right wingers say that will never be possible do you share that view?

 

I judge Israel by its lack of respect for international and humanitarian law, like everybody else with a free mind. As long as Israel acts illegally it will attract death and destruction.

 

What does that mean?, what does it have to do with what i asked you??

Are you afraid to speak freely about other than how much you hate Jews/Israelis?

I must say, it looks as if you are here on a mission on a very strict agenda, are you "planted" here by some organization, otherwise i dont understand why you cant speak freely....

 

Member education levels are not my concern.

I oppose Zionists. Whether the aresholes are jewish or Israeli is of no importance.

 

Goodwin again.

Broken record, first an idiotic statement and then a spurious and salacious nazi comparison.

Predictably pathetic debate.

 

Yes they are all legitimate targets whether Israeli or palestinian.

Now that is just a wet dream dumb statement.

While waiting for the course to come due, they'll no doubt ice a number of others.

 

that much is all too obvious.

He posted an Israeli perspective that perhaps doesn't jive with your evil image of Israelis and instead of engaging, you rudely blow him off.

the first step in peace is listening to the other side.

 

Gaza Militants Renew Rocket Fire Despite Truce

The Israeli leaders are probably LOVING this - assuming no one they know is getting hit.

It's too bad the Palestinian idiots who are firing these rockets do not realize that they are actually doing the Israeli leaders a huge favor.


Makes me wonder if the Israeli leaders are not sometimes behind the rocket attacks...maybe lobbing a couple of rockets into some uninhabited areas and make it look like the Palestinians did it? Or maybe paying a Palestinian or two do do it for them?

Nah...the Israeli leaders are nice people that would never do anything like that...