More Iranian-made Grad rockets are raining down on Ashkelon, causing damage and injuries.
At least 3 Grad rocket fired from the Gaza Strip Sunday afternoon landed in Ashkelon, marking the first time the large southern city was hit today. An Israeli girl sustained light shrapnel wounds in the attack and was taken to hospital. One rocket hit a home and caused great damage while several people suffered from anxiety as a result of the latest barrage.
More world condemnation on Israel for her “disproportionate” response, but still, there was no real outrage over Hamas launching rocket after rocket after rocket. No, the condemnation comes only when Israel acts to stop the rockets from falling.
The European Union on Sunday condemned what it called “disproportionate use of force” by the Israeli military in Gaza after dozens of Palestinians were killed in the highest single day toll since fighting erupted in 2000.
In a statement, the EU urged Israel to halt activities that endanger civilians saying they were “contrary to international law.”
I don’t recall the EU urging Hamas to stop sending rockets into Israel after Roni Yechiah was killed by one.
And of course, the wire services bias remains unchanged.
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas suspended peace negotiations with Israel on Sunday, demanding it end an offensive in the Gaza Strip that has killed more than 100 Palestinians, many of them civilians.
The United States, sponsor of the recently revived peace process, said talks must continue. It also called for an end to violence between Israel and Abbas’s Palestinian rivals in Gaza.
But Israel’s defence minister said the assault would go on.
Eight people died on Sunday, a day after 61 were killed in the bloodiest day for Palestinians since their 1980s uprising.
Israel says it is acting in self-defence to curb rocket attacks by the Hamas Islamists who run the enclave. It shrugged off a U.N. accusation that it had used “excessive force.”
Let’s take a quick look at the reason for both “excessive force” and civilian casualties: Rockets launched from the heart of Gaza city, a Palestinian war crime.
The AP has dropped this from their articles. It’s apparently no longer important to explain why the IDF is firing on civilian areas.
The army said it was targeting rocket squads, and blamed militants for operating in populated areas. AP photos showed rockets being launched from densely populated areas in northern Gaza.
This is just the preliminary round. Ehud Barak is sending in a larger force in the next few weeks.
And the IDF is doing a lot of damage to terrorist infrastructure.
It’s a start.
As long as the IDF is being accused of disproportionate force they should start actually using it.
A disproportionate response would be nuking Gaza. Anything short of that is proportionate.