During another day in the so-called “truce,” a kassam rocket landed in a school in Sderot. While school was in session.
Two Qassam rockets landed Sunday morning in the western Negev. One rocket landed near Gevim Junction south of Sderot, and two women suffered shock as a result. Another Qassam landed inside a classroom at the “Hanativ Hayeshivati” religious school in the southern town.
Luckily, at the time of the rocket’s landing all students were at the school’s synagogue for prayer service. The classroom and an adjacent toilet sustained damage.
So it looks like God saved the students. He had to, because look at how stupid the teachers are:
One of the students told Ynet: “We were at service and heard a shrieking sound but not an explosion. Panic broke out at the prayer hall, and we immediately ran back to the classroom. We saw the rocket inside the classroom, and it appeared almost intact. It seems it did not explode.”
Way to be prepared. Someone needs to have his head handed to him over that lack of control during an emergency.
You expect too much. You know how difficult it can be to keep control of a class in the placid USA. Imagine how it would be if everyone from the principal to the youngest students had a reasonable expectation that they could be bombarded and perhaps killed while at school.
In any case, it seems like those who ran to the classroom or bathroom may have been checking for anyone who might have been hurt.
chsw
Combine that with the fact that Israeli school pupils are not exactly the most obedient in the world. I always say that hutzpa is Israel’s No. 1 export, and here the hutzpa starts very early.
It exploded alright. From the Channel 10 news video, the toilet room was a mass of rubble with no cubicle wall upright.
The big chunk of tube that was in the classroom carried the propellant while the explosive end detonated in the toilet.
If I recall correctly, the hudnas were always between Hamas and Fatah, Islamic Jihad and the PA. Israel was an observer to the rhetoric.
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For crying out loud, Meryl, I’m getting tired of being the one who has to increase your level of cultural sensitivity. You’re using the western, bourgeois sense of “truce” when to the Palis and apparently most other Arabs it has an altogether different and culturally relevant meaning.
Obviously, when it comes to Jews, “hudna” or “truce” means “no successful attacks.” This one, of course, doesn’t count as successful because no Jews were killed.
Thus the truce still holds and if Israel responds to this it all progressive people will see it as an Old Testmaent-type action that only contributes to the cycle of violence that besets the Middle East and for which no one is responsible because it exists independently of anyone’s actions.
Meryl, I have re-read your post and the only thing I can add is that those who need to have their heads handed to them are the terrorists. And I think the more literally that phrase is taken, the better. It may be stooping to the level of the barbarians, but if it will work, then I’m for it.
chsw
Rahel, are you telling me that teachers can’t exert control over their students in Israel?
I’m sorry, basic common sense says you do not let children rush to the sound of an explosion. And basic common sense says that the adults should know how to control a group of children trying to do just that.
I thought Israelis are trained in emergency management. And this is in Sderot, which is undergoing daily rocket attacks. How can they be that irresponsible?