Three crude, homemade kassam rockets landed in the backyard of a Sderot home, spreading metal shards and shrapnel all around, and injuring three of the residents of that home.
But Israel should not launch “retaliatory” attacks because they would be “disproportionate.”
Three people were lightly injured when a Qassam rocket launched from the northern Gaza Strip landed in the backyard of a Sderot home Sunday morning.
The “Color Red†alert system was activated in the southern town, and several residents suffered from shock.
The al-Quds Brigades, the Islamic Jihad’s military wing, claimed responsibility.
The rocket caused damage to the home, which was also hit by a Qassam in May. The three residents who were injured in Sunday morning’s attack were taken to the Barzilai Medical Center in Ashkelon.
Another rocket landed just outside the town earlier in the day. No injuries or damages were reported.
This is on top of the five rockets that landed on Wednesday, injuring three other civilians.
And on top of the mortar attack on the Karni crossing.
Palestinian terrorists fired 11 mortars towards Israel Sunday afternoon, hitting an area near the Karni crossing.
That is the same crossing that various groups are demanding Israel reopen.
Adala, the legal center for Arab minority rights in Israel petitioned the High Court of Justice Sunday demanding that the Karni crossing between Israel and Gaza be opened immediately.
The petition, filed by Adala’s attorney Fatima al-Aju, said the closed crossing is a “vital route which can allow hundreds of tons of supplies through a day.”
It is absolutely obvious that Hamas has no intention whatsoever of stopping these attacks on Israel. So the question remains, why open the crossings?
Oh, right. The traditional, “The Palestinians are going to starve to death!” cries have begun.
“The situation in Gaza is worsening by the minute. Humanitarian disaster has been imminent for years but something has to be done now and very quickly,” Eyad Nasser, spokesman for the Red Cross in Gaza, told Ynet Saturday.
The Red Cross had sent several teams into the Strip over the last few days, becoming the dominant relief organization in the area.
“This is a medical emergency and we are doing everything in our power to see that the hospitals’ needs are met,” said Nasser.
Funny how the UN, the EU, and various NGOs are always saying how the Gazans are going to starve to death, run out of medicine, wither in the heat, or whatever, and yet—this never happens. I’m at a loss to understand this.
One thing that’s new: People are now openly calling for Israel to completely “disengage” from Gaza: Stop supplying them with anything at all. Let them figure things out on their own, or get them from Egypt.
The idea is based on an article by Dr. Robert Satloff, the executive director for the Washington Institute for Near East policy, who wrote that Israel failed to follow through on all political, economic, and security aspects of the 2005 disengagement, thus “denying itself the consequent diplomatic benefits” of the withdrawal.
“The United States should urge Israel to complete the process of disengagement that it began in 2005… which would include the following: severing the custom’s union; announcing that Israel will, after a certain defined period, cease to serve as the entry point for all goods, people, and services into Gaza; and terminating the “Philadelphia Road” security agreement which has only become a trap for Israeli security,” Satloff wrote.
“Effectively, this would leave Egypt as Gaza’s outlet to the world, with food, water, electricity, and other humanitarian goods flowing over the Gaza-Egypt border.
According to Satloff, “Israel paid the cost of disengagement but never received the benefits. In the eyes of the world, only Israel remained an occupying power after it ended its occupation.
“Israel is alone in the world as being the only country responsible for providing food, water, and electricity to a political entity that daily lobs missiles against its citizens. This is madness,” he added.
I’m with Satloff. Give the Pals a deadline for full Israeli withdrawal of all services, then let them sit in the dark and whine about how much better things were when Israel was running them.
Hit them back and hit them hard !!!
Meryl, I have high regard for your analysis of the situation with the Palis. If you feel despair at times, use it to drive the writer’s impulse, and go on.
Blockade the place from the sea as well, no more Karine A’s. Satloff is exactly right. The cutoff should include financial flows too. If Arabs want to smuggle cash across the Rafah crossing that is another matter, but there should be no money flows into or out of Gaza if they can possibly be stopped. This sort of blockade is the only way to force the Palis to behave rationally without a bloodbath, which is what Iran and Iran’s sockpuppet Hamas are planning. We should remember that the Persians don’t care how many Pali Arabs die in the struggle for genocide of the Jews (for that matter, neither do the other Arabs).