This is a side of the rockets that you will not see in the mainstream media. It’s an article about the high cost of the rocket damage to Sderot, Ashkelon, and other sites the rockets have landed.
More than 700 claims for property damage in Sderot and communities bordering the Gaza Strip were filed with the tax authorities in the past week, and another 260 were filed by Ashkelon residents. All resulted from the rocket attacks.
According to tax-authority figures based on the claims, from Saturday through Tuesday, 113 cars and 565 buildings were damaged by Qassam rockets near Gaza. There were also 28 claims for damage to agricultural goods and property.
The Qassams and Grads in Ashkelon damaged at least 30 cars and 230 buildings, but final numbers are not yet in. Wednesday, Finance Minister Roni Bar-On presented the regulations for compensating Sderot- and Gaza-area businesses for indirect damages. The new regulations, presented to the Knesset Finance Committee, will take effect upon approval by the committee.
The costs to Israel just keep on mounting. Go ahead. Tell me again how these “crude, homemade rockets” do little damage—even when describing an attack that wounded 40 soldiers.
Crude homemade rockets land in southern Israel nearly every day. Although the rockets are inaccurate, they have killed 12 people in the past seven years, injured dozens and disrupted daily life in the area.
Well, the “disruption” of daily life is a little more annoying than being unable to buy cigarettes at a decent price. And Israelis won’t be getting the sympathetic portrayals the media gives the Palestinians.
I doubt these figures will be picked up by the MSM at all.