Gaza militants fire rockets at Israel

[Bad_Daddy 2,209]

http://news.yahoo.com/gaza-militants-fire-two-rockets-israel-army-185923403.html

AFP – 6 hrs ago

Palestinian militants fired two rockets at southern Israel on Friday evening, causing neither casualties or damage, an Israeli military spokeswoman told AFP.

"A rocket landed in the Eshkol Regional Council; there was no damage or injuries reported," she said.

Earlier in the evening, a rocket from Gaza hit an empty field south of the city Ashkelon, according to the Israeli army and police.

In a separate incident, an RPG anti-tank missile was launched at Israeli soldiers near the Gaza-Israel border, damaging the security fence nearby, the military said in a statement.

"Following the soldiers' arrival at the scene, an explosive device was detonated in the Gaza Strip. Israeli soldiers responded by using tank fire," the statement said.

On Thursday morning, six Palestinians were wounded when Israeli planes launched two raids in Gaza. The military said the raids were carried out after militants fired three rockets at southern Israel on Wednesday evening.

Since the beginning of the year, Palestinian militants have fired some 30 rockets at southern Israel, army statistics show.

Hamas has maintained a tacit truce with Israel, but other armed groups regularly fire rockets across the border, usually sparking retaliatory air strikes.

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

Palestinian militants fired two rockets at southern Israel on Friday evening, causing neither casualties or damage, an Israeli military spokeswoman told AFP.

"A rocket landed in the Eshkol Regional Council; there was no damage or injuries reported," she said.

Earlier in the evening, a rocket from Gaza hit an empty field south of the city Ashkelon, according to the Israeli army and police.

In a separate incident, an RPG anti-tank missile was launched at Israeli soldiers near the Gaza-Israel border, damaging the security fence nearby, the military said in a statement.

"Following the soldiers' arrival at the scene, an explosive device was detonated in the Gaza Strip. Israeli soldiers responded by using tank fire," the statement said.

On Thursday morning, six Palestinians were wounded when Israeli planes launched two raids in Gaza. The military said the raids were carried out after militants fired three rockets at southern Israel on Wednesday evening.

Since the beginning of the year, Palestinian militants have fired some 30 rockets at southern Israel, army statistics show.

Hamas has maintained a tacit truce with Israel, but other armed groups regularly fire rockets across the border, usually sparking retaliatory air strikes.

Seems like the only ones endangered by Palestinian rockets are Palestinians, I suppose there is a point here somewhere...

[Bad_Daddy 2,209]

Seems like the only ones endangered by Palestinian rockets are Palestinians, I suppose there is a point here somewhere...

You fire 30 rockets into another country and see what happens. 30 rockets fired into Israel since Jan. 1st of this year.

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

You fire 30 rockets into another country and see what happens. 30 rockets fired into Israel since Jan. 1st of this year.

So, Gaza is another country?

[Sofiyya 1,687]

So, Gaza is another country?

Not if Israel has anything to do with it.

[Dan and Judy 614]

You fire 30 rockets into another country and see what happens. 30 rockets fired into Israel since Jan. 1st of this year.

That just aint Kosher.

[Karee 4,191]

Too bad it wasn't 60

[Hilarious Clinton 452]

Boooooo!

Terrorists shoot unguided rockets hoping to his soft targets (children, elderly, schools, malls, synagogues, baby formula factories....... ad infinitum)

SAVAGES!!!!

[Karee 4,191]

Boooooo!

Terrorists shoot unguided rockets hoping to his soft targets (children, elderly, schools, malls, synagogues, baby formula factories....... ad infinitum)

SAVAGES!!!!

Terrorists shoot unguided rockets hoping to his soft targets (children, elderly, schools, malls, mosques, baby formula factories....... ad infinitum)

Seems to me the IDF does the same thing. I stand corrected, the IDF rockets are guided.

[mawilson 2,133]

So, Gaza is another country?

Yes it is.

[Glyn and Kathy 288]

Too bad it wasn't 60

WHY???? Are you wishing that they had hit something:? Some innocent children perhaps? And then Israel can shoot some off and kill some innocents on the other side and back and forth. ITS NEVER ENDING!!!

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

Yes it is.

Perhaps you could persuade the Security Council and the Permanent Members that is indeed the case.

“It is a moment of truth, and my people are waiting to hear the answer of the world,” Mr. Abbas said in his speech. “Will it allow Israel to continue its occupation, the only occupation in the world?”

Mr. Netanyahu dismissed the Palestinian application as premature. “The Palestinians want a state without peace, and the truth is you should not let that happen,” he said, challenging a comment by Mr. Abbas that the Palestinians were armed “only with their hopes and dreams.”

“Hopes, dreams — and 10,000 missiles and Grad rockets supplied by Iran,” Mr. Netanyahu said. He repeatedly stressed Israel’s small size, saying it could not return to its 1967 borders because it needed strategic depth to defend itself, particularly from the threat of militant Islam.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/24/world/palestinians-submit-statehood-bid-at-un.html?pagewanted=all

[Bad_Daddy 2,209]

Terrorists shoot unguided rockets hoping to his soft targets (children, elderly, schools, malls, mosques, baby formula factories....... ad infinitum)

Seems to me the IDF does the same thing. I stand corrected, the IDF rockets are guided.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but the IDF only retaliates and not initiates. I can't think of a time reading about the IDF shooting missiles into Gaza other than when it's been in retaliation for Arab rocket attacks and then it's only by plane with guided missiles against terrorist and not random.

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but the IDF only retaliates and not initiates. I can't think of a time reading about the IDF shooting missiles into Gaza other than when it's been in retaliation for Arab rocket attacks and then it's only by plane with guided missiles against terrorist and not random.

Which came first? The chicken or the egg? Who is to say who is retaliating for what? When you have your foot on somebody's throat and he resists, does that justify you stomping on his balls with your other foot?

[Pooky 3,830]

Too bad it wasn't 60

This quote exemplifies why many non-Muslims view Muslims as uncivilised, murdering savages.

Congratulations on providing clear validation of this misguided point of view.

And the lack of comment and condemnation from others, who purportedly decry the continued violence and insist that the Muslim world is vocal in its opposition to those who support the violence carried out by the terrorists in the name of Islam, is also telling.

Personally, I find the opinion expressed in the quote to be morally repugnant.