Nearly 40 Qassams land in Negev region; 3 people injured

VIDEO - Nearly 40 Qassam rockets have been launched from the norther Gaza Strip into Israel since Thursday morning. Three people have sustained mild injuries and a number of others suffered from shock.

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In the last three days, more than 100 Qassam rockets have been fired into Israel along with dozens of mortars.

Hamas' Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades has claimed responsibility for most of the attacks.

Six Qassam rockets were fired from northern Gaza on Thursday afternoon, three of which landed inside the town of Sderot. Two residents were evacuated to Barzilai hospital in Ashkelon after suffering shock.

A heavy barrage of 11 rockets began at around 8 am, as Sderot's children were entering the local schools and kindergartens.

"I was just leaving the house for the school bus when the Color Red alert sounded off," a local high school student told Ynet. "We were lucky enough to have a fortified bus stop near us, so we all hid there until the bus came," she added
The number of students attending school in the battered town has been sharply decreasing. In an inquiry conducted by the Sderot municipality's education wing, it was revealed that only 54% of students have been arriving to classes in recent days.

Rockets all day long
Later in the day, two rockets landed in a residential area and caused damage to a number of homes, one of which is located near an elementary school. Another Qassam hit the city's industrial zone, while the rest landed in open fields.

At approximately 10 am, two more rockets were fired at Sderot. One landed near a vehicle traveling in the city, lightly injuring its two passengers. The second rocket landed outside city limits.

Another Qassam landed on a Sderot road at 10:45. A resident suffered from shock. More Qassams and mortar shells followed, landing near Nahal Oz – close to the Gaza-Israel border.

Prime Minister Ehud Olmert referred to the continuing rocket barrages in a speech to entrepreneurs in Tel Aviv saying "we shall continue fighting Jihad, Hamas and their allies with determination and without mercy or surrender."

In a related development, Egypt is apparently attempting to curb the smuggling of weapons emanating from the Sinai Peninsula into the Gaza Strip. Egyptian authorities reported that they confiscated 20 mortar rounds and 80 kilograms of TNT in the middle of the peninsula.

On Wednesday at least six people were hurt Wednesday evening after several Qassam barrages landed in and around Sderot and south of Ashkelon.

Five people suffered shock and a woman was lightly injured after being hit by a passing vehicle while running to take cover from the rockets.

Later senior defense officials told Sderot Mayor Eli Moyal that the rocket fire is expected to continue and even escalate further.

"They foresee an escalation," Moyal told Ynet. "They don't know when and how this campaign will end."


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Unfortunately, these rockets only give Israel more fuel for its propaganda. Civil Disobedience didn't work.
I have a feeling a Genocide will come. Or has come.

 

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Excellent :cheers:
HAMAS never down never out .

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i wonder if that is an israeli kalatch, like the others we supplied to the PA as a "peace gesture" all that long ago during Oslo.

 

So you supplied arms to keep your puppet govt. in power.. No wonder you're the US's protege..

 

we supplied the PA guns during Oslo more then ten years ago, as a peace gesture. at least do some background checking first.

"ironically", those weapons were turned against us, as part of that peace of course. what you neglected, is that it was the israeli left, alongside the american left that supported this stupid move-you know, liberals such as yourself who claimed it is a necessary step towered peace.

 

I find that hard to believe. The PA negotiators must have seen the failure of Oslo coming a long time ago.

 

they have? mayb its got something to do with the fact that they sponsored suicide bombing during the talks?

so you see only their side of this do you. no point here.

 

Weren't these rockets fired after 19 were killed and 45 injured (with flechettes, many wounded have limbs missing) in Gaza by an IDF crackdown?

 

civilians against civilians hey?

werent those 19 killed after....

like i said, keep using your fuel for rockets. lets see how wins.

 

and you only see violence. No point here as well.

 

the last person who sees violence is me. im a pacifist. i never use violence unless force to, even though i can probably flat out almost anyone.

 

Weren't you in the IDF? Did you deploy weapons against Palestinians in a pacific manner?

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i know a lot of pacifists who served in the IDF. the army prefer in combat units those left wingers, and deny draft to all those arab hating maniacs.

 

or a psychiatrist

 

I wonder if the Israelis have considered buying some C-RAM platforms. We're using them in Iraq right now. Basically a landlocked version of the USN's CIWS turret mounted on a flatbed trailer, C-RAM tracks incoming indirect fires with its internal radar and destroys them by firing a cloud of a few hundred rounds from its cannon. Unlike CIWS, however, the cannon rounds used in C-RAM are self-destructing on a timed fuze so there is no beaten zone (where they fall back to earth) making it safe to use over populated areas. You can actually hear the rounds destructing in the following video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DsnhyTiTqk4&feature=related

Hopefully in another few years, Skyguard (or something similar) will exist in a deployable configuration.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9V1pkTMCZ0M

 

Hopefully they will stop occupying Palestine.

 

I sure hope the IDF buys something to counter those rockets. Hezb has 10s of thousands of them aimed at all the big population centers rendering the army helpless to protect the home front.

 

Is that whats keeping them from invading Lebanon again? Good show.

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They've barely rebuilt after the Israeli invasion last year and the cluster bombs are still all over the place since Israel refuses to give a map.

 

That is what prevents them from bombing the shit out of Iranian nuclear installations, if they decide to do it.